they still do, through Ford industrial though. and my guess for the pics are, the last engines and falcon built in Australia
RIP Aussie automotive industry, you guys were the last mavericks. Soon we will all be driving the same melted soap blobs down the road.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Soon the only way to get a genuinely cool car will be to drop six figures and put up with a flappy shifter.
Old cars for lyfe! Barn find! Nah I already knew that this thing was here but I decided to at least let her see the light of day.
For now, but I was still right about the six figures part. Really is sad that the dream of a company with an all-RWD mainstream lineup will probably never happen again. Pontiac was heading in that direction, but... [conspiracykook]I wonder if that factored into it not surviving the bailout?[/conspiracykook]
The world went the unfortunate way of the V6 back in the 80's, now they are going the even worse way of the I4 and I3.
Inline 4 is king. Also, the best engines ever designed and built have been built within the last 20 years.
like the 4.6 modular ford v8 or the Chevy/oldsmobile 5.7l v8 or amc's 4l v8 or the 6l caddilac v8 the point is big heavy sloppy american cars are also reliable and there engine f the i4 and i3 shitty engines
Then explain the 55-86 Small block Chevy, the 67-01 318 Chrysler, and the 65-96 Ford 300-6? I've examples of all three of these go for several hundreds of thousands of miles with little to no maintenance. Now obviously there are examples of newer engines that will do the same, however I've yet to see as many as do that as I have as old 318's and 300-6's.
Inline 4? You mean pretty much the only engine (other than a UEL header flat 4) that isn't guaranteed to sound good with straight pipes?
Just imagine what hitting the hi cam on an 11.3 to 1 compression engine with a flat plane crank sounds like open header. Race engine.
You mean the smallest reasonable engine you'd put in a car? Some i4's are spectacular, but let's not pretend they're anywhere near the best.
My rear wiper's intermittent setting doesn't work when its cold out. Like, the intermittent mode will run at the same speed as normal. When it's warm out it works fine.
I like small cars with peaky "hi horsepower" small displacement motors, and a very short gearset. Engineering wise these little inline 4s are simply amazing. Impressive valve trains. I don't have a vendetta against v8s even tho I make a lot of jokes. Some of the nicest engines ever built are ferrari v8s in my oppinion. Just no push pod silliness that even old Porsche engines use
What's wrong with pushrods? Hey @amarks240 I finally got to see the new 2016 Honda Civic in the flesh for the first time
Pushrod engines have a pretty low maximum RPM limit, according to Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game. Plus, pushrod engines are generally limited to 2 valves per cylinder, and then there's the LOLstoneagetech jokes.
pushrod engines are much more durable and reliable, interference or not, timing chains are tough to snap, and if you do snap them nothing happens anyway really. There is much more play and weight in the valvetrain so they have to be less revvy, and getting a nice smooth torque curve with them is hard, but they last forever.
My SUV's hatch door hydraulic arms doesn't keep that door open in the cold. But that only happens because they stopped working a few years ago. (It's a(n) '06 Saturn Vue). How expensive are those rear hatch arms?
