Ovlov T5

But mine isn't a great big lard ass!

-- Chet

I resemble that remark...

Ford do one out here. With a turbo. 240kw out of the box. In a great big monster car. Pity that Nissan have dropped the RB line of engines.

Fraser

IIRC it's similar to my Supra's 7M-GE but made properly this time around.

Richard

Mercedes are onto the V6s now, unless they're still dropping the inline one in the G-wagen.

Richard (Nissan's 350 engine is also a V6... Are they still doing the skyline?).

For the sparkling wit and pleasant conversation of the regulars, of course.

Peter

Yep.

Peter

Nissan has dropped the Skyline 6. Even the R34 GTR Skyline race car in the Jap touring car series is running a turbo V6 as a test bed.

Fraser

But if the 4-pot Turbo is smooth-enough, then there is nothing to be gained by making it smoother !

Smoother than smooth-enough, means it's still smooth-enough :)

It's not like you can feel/hear the individual firings or anything !

You have to remember that 99.9% of the driving public, want as LITTLE sound as possible :)

Lack-of-midrange-poke easily cancels out those two things for me.

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it - just that it's quite obviously NOT "infinitely better to drive" than a nice 2.3 Turbo...

in news: snipped-for-privacy@news4.newsguy.com, "Nom" slurred :

Depends on definition of 'adequate'. the Alfa 3.0 24v lump produces 270nm, and has a pretty flat torque curve, so it's not exactly limp-wristed.

Aarrrggghhhh, no!

Whereas if you only drive it up to 5500rpm then it has 200BHp, which may still be 'adequate', and it is very smoooooth.

Agreed.

I happen to really like V6 lumps - but to say they're "infinitely better to drive" than HP Turbo lumps, is just loonacy !

Both have their strengths and weaknesses, and come out pretty evenly matched overall...

Nope, that is a big old clunker that nobody wants ;)

What about me and ronny with our Car PCs, and I have adjustable shocks and a cone filter, and uprated dumpvalve (better, stronger, and rebuildable) on the Saab.

All the skodas had interior and handlin gimprovements.

They are all mods.

It's a stealth car. Auto's aren't as nice as manuals, but they look like a slightly dated exec car, but handle and operform like a real autobahn stormer, and the engines last for ever.

Oh and you can modify the manuals for 450BHP and still use them as a daily driver.

You seem to be confusing mods with bolting on the contents of the ripspeed catalogue ;-)

They're FWD aren't they?