Am I reading that right? This was a system that meant you were effectively running your car's engine on carbon monoxide?! That's not a typo or mistranslation? CO is more normally a waste product in the vehicle's own exhaust, or at least it commonly was until emissions regulations really tightened up on it... 193.63.174.254 (talk) 19:08, 21 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
- The French term used is Gazogène. In reality, it seems to have been a combination in variable proportions of combustible gases only one of which was carbon monoxide. I understand that carbon monoxide was also ONE of the elements included in town gas which here in England was piped round the countryside and used to power domestic gas cookers till they discovered ways to extract combustible gases from under the North Sea. I suggest you take a look at the Gazogène entry in French wiki. It includes several chemical formulae which as far as I know (and probably I don't) make sense in terms of the chemistry even if one is not fluent in French. You might even put it into google translate and see if anything remotely intelligible emerges. Success. Charles01 (talk) 19:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
The article states "Interest in the Éclipse resurfaced more than half a century later with the “reinvention” of the retractable hardtop by the 1995 Misubishi [sic] 3000GT Spyder and subsequent popularization of the concept by cars such as the Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class.[8]"
But there were other retractable hardtops manufactured and sold between 1939 and 1995. One was the 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner described in the Wiki article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fairlane_500_Skyliner. This was another landmark, followed by others from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, Volvo, Chrysler, Lexus, and even Buick.
There is a very good history of retractable hardtops in the Wiki article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retractable_hardtop.
Mentioning the 1995 Mitsubishi necessitates referencing at least the 1957-59 Skyliner.
Tennisjazz (talk) 20:47, 1 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
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