"AD" > wrote in message
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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
> .. .
> >> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:44:44 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
> >> > wrote:
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> >>>A 2.0L V8? Is there such a thing?
>
> >> Ferrari made one.
>
> >Didn't that one explode a lot?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

Hmm, 940kg-2072 lbs, about mazda 2 territory.
How much fuel did it gulp then?

1600 27-32mpg
2000 28-32mpg

Imperial gallons from Parkers guide.

IIRC the Vitesse had a lethal flaw, whereby in hard cornering the outside
rear wheel would fold under the car.

Most Triumphs only had fatal (for the car) flaws, such as rust (all models),
clogging injection (2500PI), boiling over (Stag), faulty steering (Toledo),
poor build (TR7) etc. etc.