On Jan 24, 10:05*pm, Dean Dark > wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:54:39 -0000, "R. Mark Clayton"
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> >On 20 ???, 01:50, Dean Dark > wrote:
> >> On 19 Jan 2011 18:30:16 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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> >> >"Dean Dark" > wrote in message
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> >> >> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:44:44 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
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> >> >>>A 2.0L V8? Is there such a thing?
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> >> >> Ferrari made one.
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> >> >Didn't that one explode a lot?
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> >> I don't know. It was back in the late 70s and I think it was built
> >> for the Italian market that at that time had some really nutty
> >> cc-related taxation laws.
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> >> I had a '66 Triumph Vitesse with a 1600 cc straight six. The
> >> cylinders weren't *that* much bigger than 250 cc. Sweet little
> >> engine, it was.
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> >Hmm, 940kg-2072 lbs, about mazda 2 territory.
> >How much fuel did it gulp then?
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> >1600 27-32mpg
> >2000 28-32mpg
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> >Imperial gallons from Parkers guide.
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> >IIRC the Vitesse had a lethal flaw, whereby in hard cornering the outside
> >rear wheel would fold under the car.
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> That would only happen if you snapped off the throttle in mid-corner,
> which no capable driver would do. *It's the same kind of thinking as
> the people who believe that the Porsche 911 has a "fatal flaw" because
> it will spin out if you do the same thing.

In the best Homer Simpson voice: "Umm, the rear engine layout + RWD...
massive weight resting on the rear axle. I love oversteer"