Ford Fiesta ST concept Ford pulls the wraps off the fastest Fiesta ever, the new 178bhp turbo ST hot hatch

Ford’s long anticipated Fiesta hot hatch is here.While the current generation supermini has been on sale for three years now,Ford has waited until the 2011 Frankfurt motor show to unleash a properly sporty model.It should be worth the wait,though;it looks suitably beefy,for starters,and packs a decent amount of punch behind its aggressive nose.

Like the vast majority of its rivals,power comes not from an enthusiastic but CO2-unfriendly naturally aspirated engine,but a new turbocharged unit.It’s a 1.6-litre Ecoboost engine boasting 178bhp,a huge 46bhp rise over the S1600,the hottest Fiesta currently available.Torque is rated at 177lb ft while 0-60mph should take less than seven seconds and a top speed of around 140mph is suggested.

And the upside of turbo power? Carbon emissions below 140g/km, putting the new Fiesta ST in Tax Band E, five bands below a Renaultsport Clio 200. While that may not be its most exciting selling point, it could be a deciding factor for many when purchasing a budget performance car like this.
While the new Ford Fiesta ST is officially still a concept, a production model should be on sale by summer 2012, and with this show car looking so plausible, expect few visual or technical changes between now and then. Prices should begin at around £17,000.

the Pullman Railplane of 1933, self propelled, designed by Stout (of the Stout Scarab)

Feeling the effects of the Depression and declining business, America's railroads (in the 1930s) were looking for ways to reinvigorate passenger travel. As Ralph Budd, president of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy, later explained, railroads had to continue running trains on short routes to handle mail and baggage "whether or not anyone rides the trains." After seeing GM's powerful diesel engines, Budd concluded that what the railroads needed was a new kind of train that was fast, convenient, ultramodern and luxurious enough to fire the public imagination. The Union Pacific Railroad also saw the two exhibits and came to similar conclusions. A race was on to see which of the two railroads would be the first to develop an ultramodern railcar

 1934 Century of Progress Fair in Chicago The Union Pacific selected the University of Michigan to find the best aerodynamic shape while CB&Q turned to M.I.T.. The new designs looked like nothing else that had ridden the rails. They looked more like Buck Rogers's space ship than a train. People were tired of living in the Depression and they were ready for a change. 

 the Pullman-Standard wondertrain powered by 600 HP Winton petrol engine

 Union Pacific М-10000 City of Salina weighed 20 per cent as much as a conventional railroad car, but using only two minuscule (by railroad standards) 320-hp six-cylinder truck engines, was able to hit 100 miles per hour, while delivering 5 miles per gallon. By comparison to conventional railcars, the ride was superb, engine noise and fumes were all but eliminated and the seating arrangement - using aircraft-type seats as fitted to the Scarab automobile - made the Railplane quite luxurious

It is Pullman-Standard Railplane

In 1933, the Pullman Car & Manufacturing Company constructed the Railplane to Stout's design (some improvements were later patented by the company, see the positives below). This was merely Stout's familiar triangulated space-frame aircraft fuselage, this time adapted to railroad use. Here too, he was able to preserve his all-time important triumvirate: simplicity, practicality and comfort. The self-propelled car had an aluminum body, 60' in length. It was exhibited at the Chicago World's fair 1934 and then leased to the Gulf, Mobile & Northern in 1935 for service between Tylertown and Jackson, Mississippi. From the railroad point of view, all running gear could be easily serviced from outside, tracks and roadbed lasted longer and operating costs were significantly less. Despite proven advantages, there were no buyers. Union Pacific ordered a three-car version (future City of Salina) , but that's as far as it went.

from http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/sunday-streamline-12-pullman  and  http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/flying-americans

GMC Bison Bullet, 1965

Found on http://www.cardesign.ru/forum/diskussii/obschenie/1352