What can I buy for £1800 that's fun?

sweet...

It's apparently an EXCELLENT engine. Although things keep getting delayed, so it's not actually with us yet. Anytime now though :)

Yay :)

Ford didn't really have any other option though - they're incapable of making a decent normal-sized Diesel lump :)

just to be pedantic, it's really a 2.9 ;)

we had a few of them they did run nice but they don't seem to go round corners that well :)

as for the 1.9 na lump, the berlingo is quicker than the same engined kangoo

the HDi lumps are grand though, but it feels a lot quicker than it actually is :)

15.55 to 60 but it feels like it's a 10 second van

The Berlingo is much better at corners than the Vito (if thats what you meant), not surprising really htough, give the difference in c of g's!

whereas the Vito IS a 10s van (well almost). Damn i miss it :(

The one that is 2993cc?

Only when they change the rules to allow Gas Turbines, heavy fuel oils work best in continuous combustion instead of intermittent combustion.

Current plans to reduce expense of engines by making them last 6 races could put the engine makers that charge and expect to make a profit from their engines out of business. Wonder how empty the grid will be at race 6 when cars that have dead engines can't run. Ah yes, they fine them for no show or they don't award any points and fine them (less?) for using a new engine! The price per engine will have go up massively to pay for all the development that goes into them or development will have to stop - a dead and static race series. The build cost per engine is fairly small. Ilmore gave a deal on USA CART series engines that if returned running they would be rebuilt at no charge, even so the production run was in the 100's. Ferrari make about as many race engines per year as they make road cars. The F1 and road car factories are side by side and about the same size. To keep the line running they will be able to give engines away. It will be even more boring with only Ferrari and one other engine maker in the championship.

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2926 surely :)

Not according to BMW. 90mm x 84mm is 2992.555cc on my calculator as well.

well, all the publications that publish the engine size that I read say it's the 2926 engine in the 330di stop trying to complicate things by bringing maths into it :)

Hmm, curious.

= 445 hits.http://www.google.com/search?&q=330d+2993 = 199 hits. bmw.co.uk says 2993. bmw.de says 2993.

would suggest that itused to be 2926/184bhp and now it's 2993/218bhp. One gold star each.