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Tiny Stars Charity Lunch
Wirral fundraising supremo’s Mandy Molby and Claire Gallagher hosted a charity lunch at Thornton Hall Hotel to raise funds for Tiny Stars, the special care unit at Arrowe Park Hospital. The event, sponsored by Hallmark Jewellers and Wirral Handmade Gin company, was attended by 150 guests. Claire Simmo hosted the event with guest speaker Gillian Kearney.
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Victoria Burrows, Senior Fundraiser said: "It was a great day, thank you to everyone who gave their time for free and Jumping Jacks who provided the balloons. We raised over 5k for Tiny Stars."
BAC MONO LAUNCH By Norman Shum
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Because of COVID 19, to protect our Cars N Coffee Liverpool members and community, we have decided to postpone the meetings until further notice.
On a positive and happier note, we will not stop our conversations about cars, thanks to social media. Our shift and improvisation has in fact pushed our boundaries into territories we have not been before. In March this year, the Geneva International Motor Show, one of Europe’s largest annual motoring events was cancelled. Still the manufacturers pressed ahead with their unveilings via Vloggers, Bloggers and traditional video reports from the factory floor. The Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) based here in Liverpool did just that!
Ever since the start of Cars N Coffee Liverpool, we have shared a great rapport with BAC. On the day of the Geneva cancellation, they invited 40 of our members including photographers and potential customers to the factory. This included the well known Iain Tyrrell (we’ve featured one of his Lamborghini Espadas in a previous issue) and Harry Metcalfe the founder and former editorial director of Evo Magazine, and presenter of YouTube channels Harry’s Garage, along with another car enthusiast and property expert Nick Burnand, who frequently appears on TV’s ‘Homes under the Hammer’ and in Wirral Life.
This time BAC has revealed a surprisingly lighter, much faster, new-look version of its single-seat Mono supercar, which adopts turbo power for the first time as a way of meeting forthcoming emissions regulations and maintaining compliance in its 40 export markets across the world. Priced at £165,950. It is powered by a Mountune developed, 2.3-litre Ford four-cylinder engine developing 330bhp, a boost of 25bhp over the outgoing car’s normally aspirated version of the same unit. However the Mono’s horsepower boost is dwarfed by a torque increase of nearly 30%: the new turbo engine’s output rises from 229lb ft to “over” 295lb ft. Company bosses Neil and Ian Briggs estimate that their new car should be around four seconds a lap faster than the original on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit. Official 0-60mph time is an astonishing 2.7seconds, with a top speed of 170mph.
The new Mono weighs just 570kg, uses a new iteration of BAC’s traditional steel space frame chassis, and is clad with graphene enhanced carbon fibre panels that allow material to be thinner (and thus lighter) for the same strength. The styling closely follows the new look of the special edition Mono R — minus that cars controversial F3-style ram-air intake behind the drivers which isn’t needed because of the engines new forced induction system — with every panel redesigned to reduce visual mass, lower overall height and reduce frontal area, to improve aero performance. The car is 20mm lower, and 25mm longer, has more optimal weight distribution (due to a lowered fuel tank and a centralised battery) and incorporates a plethora of tiny weight saving measures so that despite the extra weight of its turbo engine, it weighs 10kg less overall.
The all-independent wishbone suspension has been extensively redesigned to reduce pitch under brakes and squat under acceleration. It also incorporates Öhlins twoway adjustable dampers, lightweight AP brake calipers and specially homologated Pirelli Trofeo R tyres, now standard on all Monos. The result, says BAC, is sharper turn-in, better rotation at the apex of a corner, and better traction at the exit. The Briggs brothers say the latest Mono incorporates a high degree of innovation: there are around 40 3D printed components (mirror supports, headlight surrounds and wiring brackets amongst them). They are especially proud of a newly developed aluminium-carbon fibre wheel design developed with software partners Autodesk that will be offered as an option. It shaves around 35% off the weight of the existing Mono’s already-ultra light standard aluminium wheels. Though BAC is already taking orders for the new Mono it won’t start delivering them until well into 2021, beginning in the UK, European and South-East Asian markets - because the factory will be fully occupied this year building and delivering its already sold - batch of Mono R specials shown at Goodwood last summer. The two newly launched vehicle will make its debut in person to you all soon here at Cars N Coffee Liverpool.
wirrallife.com 81 From everyone here at Cars N Coffee Liverpool, we hope you are all safe and healthy and we can't wait to see you all again very soon! To join in with the updates and conversations please join us on Facebook Group - CNC Liverpool (Carsandcoffeeliverpool ) or if you need any sort of help in these difficult times please email us on Chungku@live.co.uk - we will be on the other end to try and help! We are in it together, you are not alone!
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