Re: Small export engine for 120?

Posted by HH56 On 2018/10/31 11:57:14

I don't know that the engine was produced. I was mostly just curious how smaller version engines in general worked in Europe with the large American cars that did have them when even regular US production engines in the same model could be marginal. Were the taxes so high that customers who opted for an import just had to put up with maybe poor performance or were there reasonable cost options.

It was mentioned the average European small engined cars did not fare well here in wide open spaces and that was on a smaller lightweight car. Wondered about the reverse with a large heavy car with maybe not great performance on a typical European road. I remember riding in a VW Beetle with maybe 30 or 40 hp going up Waldo grade near San Francisco. By the time we got to the top it would almost have been quicker to get out and walk so can just imagine what a large car would do in similar situation with a small engine.