Talbot Matra Murena

Talbot Matra Murena

The Matra Murena was a 3-seat sports car produced from 1979 through 1983. It replaced the Bagheera. All three seats were placed in the front row, with the middle seat folding down to become an armrest. It was a mid-engine hatchback car and used either the 1.6 L Simca Type 315 or a 2.2 L straight-4 engine. Mécanique Avion TRAction or Matra is a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to aeronautics and weaponry which today operates as the Lagardère Group. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In automobile design, an MR or Mid-engine, Rear wheel drive layout is one in which the rear wheels are driven by an engine placed just in front of them, behind the passenger compartment. ... Peugeot 306 Hatchback, with the hatch lifted and the parcel shelf tilted for access A hatchback is an automobile design, consisting of a passenger cabin which includes an integrated cargo space, accessed from behind by a hatch or flip-up window. ... The straight-4 or inline-4 is an internal combustion engine with four cylinders aligned in one row. ...

The Murena was the first production car to use galvanized steel for all chassis parts. The body panels were made from fibreglass/polyester. These two aspects mean that the Murena is essentially immune to rust, except for the rear trailing arms of the suspension. Hot-dip galvanizing is the process of coating iron or steel with a thin zinc layer by passing the steel through a molten bath of zinc at a temperature of around 460°C. Zinc rusts to form zinc oxide, a fairly strong material that stops further rusting, protecting the steel... There is a disputed proposal to merge this article with glass-reinforced plastic. ... SEM picture of a bend in a high surface area polyester fiber with a seven-lobed cross section Polyester is a category of polymers, or, more specifically condensation polymers, which contain the ester functional group in their main chain. ... A trailing-arm suspension is an automobile suspension design in which one or more arms (or links) are connected between (and perpendicular to) the axle and the chassis. ...

References

• "Matra Murena Maniac." Fortunecity. URL accessed on December 3, 2005.
• "Matra-Talbot Murena index." www.matrasport.dk. URL accessed on May 18, 2006.