F.A.G.S.?

[Fred_C_Dobbs]

I long have wondered when someone would top Chevrolet naming a car with the words that, in Spanish, mean "it doesn't go" ...<span style="font-style: italic">no va</span>. This is the time, and this is the car. And it even has ...

<span style="font-size: 14pt">...Ford Active Grille Shutters!</span>

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F.A.G.S., the latest in Detroit high technology.

 

[High Binder]

Re: Fags?

Oh my god! That's amazing!

It of course begs the question: If closing the grill makes that much difference why have them open at all?

And they wonder why people buy Hondas and Nissans...

 

[USAFDoug]

Re: Fags?

I think you would want them open when stuck in traffic or driving slowly to move air onto the raidiator... while moving at a faster pace and all the air moving closing them shouldnt be an issue.

 

[Yasherka]

Re: F.A.G.S.?

Something else to break at an inopportune moment.

 

[kilo7788]

Re: F.A.G.S.?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Yasherka</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Something else to break at an inopportune moment. </div></div>
Agree. Its probably wired in with the ABS, Lights or something else important that you HAVE to replace. And by a dealer no doubt.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Re: F.A.G.S.?

Fred:

You forgot to mention the Buick LaCrosse.

In ze Franch Canadian patois slang, eh? LaCrosse means... well... to pleasure ze self.

So when LaCrosse billbords went up all over Eastern Canada.

Zut alors, the rest is histoir, Tabernaq. eh?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3208501.stm

Cheers,

Sirhr.

 

[Fred_C_Dobbs]

Re: F.A.G.S.?

Sirhrmechanic, I'd pay extra for a car that "pleasures" me but I'd rather not have one that doesn't <span style="font-style: italic">"va."</span> Speaking of <span style="font-style: italic">zoze krezy Frenchies</span>, the brand name of one of their best-selling cars is the Dutch word for 'lemon.' Little wonder they didn't catch on in America.

Ford is presenting this like it's some radical innovation but truth is, airplanes have had a manually-activated version of "grille shutters" since forever, they just call them "cowl flaps." Here's a Russian Yak-52 with its cowl flaps closed:

It would seem more intuitive to control the entrance of air into the engine nacelle but that's actually a rare exception (which is why I showed the Yak first). The far more common solution is to use a flap to control the exit of air from the nacelle, as in this Beech 18 engine:

Cowl flaps closed ...

...cowl flaps open