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If you’re reading this right now, maybe it’s because you’re staying inside to avoid the heat. Perhaps you’re killing time while you wait for your significant other to finish trying on clothes at a department store. Or it could be that you’re just a huge fan of Car Connections. Ultimately, all that truly matters is that you’re here now, and I thank you for your time. If this is your first time reading this series, here’s how it works: I get three words from the Random Word Generator, then — somehow — I link them to automobiles. This week’s words are foot, riot, and pottery. How would you associate these words with cars? Tell us in the Comments section below. (And click here for more Car Games!)
Foot: Foot Clan. Shredder. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Lair. Villain. Max Zorin. The 1985 James Bond movie “A View to a Kill,” which finds 007 (played by Roger Moore) trying to prevent Zorin (Christopher Walken) from destroying Silicon Valley and creating a microchip monopoly for his company and conspirators. Bond gets help from Stacey Sutton (Tonya Roberts), who at one point in the movie is shown driving an early XJ Jeep Cherokee.
Riot: The band Quiet Riot. Quiet. The second-generation Rolls-Royce Ghost, which came out for the 2021 model year. Of course, as a Rolls, the Ghost needs to keep out road, wind, and tire noise but, during development, it was so quiet that it was disorienting because what passengers heard (or didn’t hear, rather) didn’t match the car’s movement.
Engineers stuffed the car with 220 pounds of sound-damping material, even putting it in the window glass and tires. According to CNN, “The result was a strange and unnatural near-total silence. This also made other noises – someone else’s breathing or pants shifting against leather seats – stand out even more.” Instead of totally removing sounds, engineers found harmonies between them. “The seat frames, for example, naturally resonated along with the body of the car so dampers were added to adjust the level of that sound without entirely eliminating it. Also, a vent was added to the trunk, allowing some of the thrumming bass note created there to escape while, again, not getting rid of it entirely.”
Pottery: The 1990 Patrick Swayze movie “Ghost.” Ghost, but not the Rolls-Royce Ghost above. Let’s go to Sweden.
For the new street-legal, track-capable, 1,600-horsepower CCGT1, Koenigsegg cloaked it in a special white carbon fiber it calls “Ghost Fibre.” Spooky!
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