Re: [DMCForum] Re: Kicking Martin's What? (With 200 HP)

[Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would suggest that outside the US (and perhaps Australia), Nobody has 
heard of the Cadillac Northstar.Has it got the following of the Rover 
V8? Somehow I doubt it. And yes, the Rover V8 was originally an american 
lump, but they decided there was no future in aluminium blocks so sold 
the rights to Rover for peanuts......... any questions?

Look up Nissan's RB26DETT engine on Google. That is generally accepted 
as the best road-going performance engine ever made

....oh look, it's only 2.6 litres.

Martin

John Dore wrote:

> Martin,
>
> Wasn't the Cadillac Northstar V8 generally accepted as one of the
> greatest engines ever? On both sides of the Atlantic...
>
> What about the Hoover Dam? The Big Dig in Boston? Mount Rushmore? The
> NYC skyline?
>
> Americans make great engineers!
>
> I would hardly consider Jeremy Clarkson or Quentin Willson
> journalists if it is their opinions on American engineering you have
> embraced.
>
> There is nothing so complicated about the European or Japanese method
> of engine design that any American automotive engineer could not
> easily grasp. Its just that those tiny engines that sound like vacuum
> cleaners don't suit the American market. Most Americans (and yes lots
> of Europeans too!) simply like big engines. Those who don't like big
> engines will never understand those who don't, and I think that is
> the way it will remain till our dying days!
>
> John

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