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bill.shurvinton at nokia.com bill.shurvinton at nokia.com
Thu Dec 6 08:35:01 GMT 2001


Bruce,

you did that on purpose didn't you. I mean the fact that noone could
ever agree what consitutes good performance or reasonable price anyway. 

Anyway it's not Lotus fault that they designed a lovely modern multicam
etc engine for said car and then noone could cast it in great enough
numbers to make it viable in production ;-)

Personally I am more cynical. The reason that a lot of the modern dodads
have not been fitted to cars is because the car makers didn't need to.
Whilst legislation doesn't force it, and cars do the gas milage that
meets expectations, why change.

Of course now in Europe there is this 'average' economy across the model
range which will force a lot of these ideas out of the lab and onto the
street.

My particular fave is the VW variable compression head which goes from
14:1 lean burn to 8.5:1 forced induction. Hats off if they can get that
to be reliable.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: ext Bruce [mailto:nacelp at bright.net]


Marketing.
The best performing Reasonably priced car in the world today still uses
an
OHV engine.
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