THE EVO ENCYCLOPEDIA
THIS MONTH T-U
T Letter used on car badges, generally to denote ‘turbo’ unless we’re talking about the Ferrari Mondialt, where it meant the engine (but not the gearbox) had been turned lengthways, or the Cizeta-Moroder V16T, where it stood for ‘transverse’, or the Daihatsu Charade GTti, in which only one of the Ts stood for turbo and it was never entirely clear which.
T-bone
Road traffic incident in which one car drives into the side of another in a delicious meaty way.
TA
Traffic announcement. Car audio feature designed to scare the crap out of you in a rented or unfamiliar car as a different voice suddenly comes over the speakers to tell you about a traffic jam 47 miles away at 100 times the volume of whatever you were previously listening to.
Tachograph
Device that records vehicle speed, distance covered and driving time, not to be confused with a tachometer, which
