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Tomahawk (1985)

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Dodge's SRT Tomahawk X VGT represents how the company thinks racing will look twenty years from now.

Its design was inspired by the concept of challenging human boundaries. That should explain why the engine was designed to produce 2465.4 HP! The creators imagined that the car would reach performance levels that would push the limits of human reflexes.

Movable aerodynamic panels, like those found on a fighter jet, are affixed to its body to provide maximum downforce. All this and more allow you to take corners in this car at speeds of 500km/h.

The SRT Tomahawk VGT is a 20-year forward vision of uncompromising, unrestricted performance. It is the virtual fusion of extreme motoring and stunning design. The Tomahawk is a single seat MR-AWD (mid-rear engine, all-wheel-drive) vehicle constructed on a custom-built composite chassis and designed around an aggressive powertrain.

The motivation for the Tomahawk is provided from two sources:

1) The main power plant is nearly flat, 144-degree 6.98-liter V10 engine generating in excess of 1000 horsepower.

2) Auxiliary power is stored in two composite pneumatic cylinders that run nearly the length of the wheelbase. Each of the front wheels is connected to a Variable-Fin Quad-Stage Pneumatic Power Unit that can rapidly store and release pneumatic energy. A similar Pneumatic Power Unit is connected to the V10 engine. This system provides the Tomahawk with All-Wheel-Drive capability to improve cornering and acceleration when grip at the rear wheels is traction limited.

The Tomahawk's lightweight composite chassis uses emerging advanced materials including hollow carbon nanofibers and graphene micro-lattice structures. All of the transparent elements of the Tomahawk are made from graphene skins including the cockpit and the engine-cover windows. The graphene windscreen allows a clear digital overlay of all vehicle instrumentation and communications in front of the driver as needed. The filament-wound pneumatic cylinders are integral structural elements laminated into the chassis. The entire vehicle design, from the low driver position to the nearly flat layout of the V10 engine, is intended to achieve the lowest possible center of gravity.

The handling dynamics of the Tomahawk are enhanced by continuously achieve aerodynamic system which deploys multiple pneumatically driven elements, including a rear wing and a secondary front splitter. These aero panels are constantly adjusting to the track conditions and driver inputs in order to provide the highest level of downforce and the lowest levels of drag when required. The Tomahawk's aerodynamic system reacts to inputs provided by a forward scanning laser system that detects surface changes in front of the car. The computer controls anticipate changes in vehicle ride height, pitch and yaw and adjust splitter accordingly.

The exhaust of the V10 engine is routed to the rear diffuser in series of paired runners. Flow from the exhaust works in conjunction with the active aerodynamic system to provide an acceleration of underbody flow at the rear of the car and create a blown diffuser effect that increases downforce with no negative effect on drag.

The Tomahawk suspension also uses the pneumatic system in several ways: The vehicle rides on a set of variable-rate pneumatic springs which also provide adjustable jounce and rebound damping. In addition, the Tomahawk includes a revolutionary active chamber system in which the wheels knuckles adjust to learn the vehicle into the turns with each wheel angling outboard or inboard to maintain the optimum tire contact patch and the highest possible mechanical grip.

The X is the ultimate expression of extreme performance. It takes The Tomahawk's performance capability to the limit of human reflexes and the boundary of human physiology. Even with the assistance of the G-suit, an extensive seven-month training program is required to build up the driver's condition in order to pilot the Tomahawk X at 10/10ths.

Only the fittest drivers are considered for this training program. Colossal levels of acceleration are achieved with the full complement of the Tomahawk X aerodynamic system, which includes nine independently actuating aerodynamic panels. In addition to the dual-element rear wing and underbody splitter, the X is equipped with corner wing panels that deploy above each of the four wheels. There are also rudder panels located at each rear skirt. The corner wings and rudder panels work in concert with the rear wing and splitter to create not only massive amounts of vertical downforce but also the revolutionary effect yaw force -a laterally acting force that bends the air sideways and sails the car through the bends similar to an airplane. In addition to downforce and yaw force, the panels can be deployed in a high-drag barking mode.

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