Pointless engine combos.

[LC Torana]

4.1 litre Cortina

 

2.6 litre Marina

 

4.0 litre Chrysler Centura (180)

 

Morris 1500 (ADO16 with bonnet bulge and B-series)

[beko1987]

1.6 engine in a fat, wobbly Meriva

 

all noise, no go

[cort16]

VXR Meriva. Why?

[Liggle]

The 2.4 140bhp 5 pot in the Volvo S80

 

2.3 n/a dizzle engine in any 80's ford, what were they? 70bhp?

[Coprolalia]

2.8L VR6 Sharan

 

Plonking the lovely meaty burbly Corrado engine in the mummy shopping trolley. Only use is surprising Beamers.

 

Golf mk4 2.0 8v petrol

Offered as an engine alternative for the GTi and lower specs- 115 bhp. Or you can have the 1.8t which is better on fuel and has 150bhp put of the box. Why?

[castros_bro]

VW Beetle 1600 inna motorbicycle (Amazonas)

[LabRat]

2 litre 10 valve engine in a Volvo 850. I had the saloon with an autobox, it drank like George Best and could be left for dead by an asthmatic on a pedal bike!

 

 

 

 

 

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[darkfour]

70/71 Plymouth Barracuda....with a slant 6

[twosmoke300]

1.9D in the boxer/ relay - good grief

[SiC]

Golf Mk5 with the 2.0 SDI (non-turboed engine)

 

73bhp trying to haul 1400kg of modern car around doesn't go very far. Fuel economy is crap as you drive it with your foot on the floor all the time.

 

0-60 in 16.2s

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201602120967528

 

Still were selling them in 2007 at least.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201602070799555

[bub2006]

Mercedes e200 w210. Me and wife Had a r registration one. Wouldn't pull a pixies foreskin and dredger levels of fuel consumption. Didn't help that it kept pulling off in second

[Spottedlaurel]

Golf mk4 2.0 8v petrol

Offered as an engine alternative for the GTi and lower specs- 115 bhp. Or you can have the 1.8t which is better on fuel and has 150bhp put of the box. Why?

 

But that 2-litre was still infinitely nicer than the gutless NA 1.8 20v engine.

 

My suggestion is the old L-Series straight-six that they persevered with in the Nissan Laurel SGL/SGX C32 from the mid-late ‘80s. Elsewhere they fitted the lovely new ‘VG’ V6 and ‘RB’ straight-six, yet we got the ‘L’. Smooth, yes, but not exactly quick.

[dieselnutjob]

slightly different topic but there was the pointless brakes on my B4 Passat TDI estate.  It was quite a big heavy car for the time but because it only had 90bhp they put the same brakes on it as a 1.4 Golf.

 

I found on fast dual carriageways with lots of roundabouts that the brakes would have smoke pouring out of them by the 3rd or 4th roundabout and with four people and holiday luggage they really were quite dangereous.

 

Fortunately I found out that Golf VR6 calipers with Corrado G60 discs were a bolt on replacement, though it needed bigger wheels to go over them.

[320touring]

E36 320i - performance of a 318is but the economy of a 323/325/328!

nah, 2.0 6 pot oversquare revmeister ftw!

[Matt]

2.8L VR6 Sharan

 

Plonking the lovely meaty burbly Corrado engine in the mummy shopping trolley. Only use is surprising Beamers.

 

Came here to say this. Surprise Beamers with the noise maybe, I don't think they are all that quick.

 

What about the 55bhp 1.3 from the MK2 Polo being plonked into the MK2 Golf? It was no ball of fire in the Polo and the MK2 Golf is rather chubby in comparison. Got 40 MPG in the Polo so can't imagine it's great in the Golf.

[sierraman]

Astra 1.8vvt. Thought to myself it could be a revvy sweet engine like the k series vvt? No. If I'd expected nothing I'd have been disappointed.

[Liggle]

Came here to say this. Surprise Beamers with the noise maybe, I don't think they are all that quick.

 

What about the 55bhp 1.3 from the MK2 Polo being plonked into the MK2 Golf? It was no ball of fire in the Polo and the MK2 Golf is rather chubby in comparison. Got 40 MPG in the Polo so can't imagine it's great in the Golf.

 

They put a 60bhp 1.4 8v in the MK3 Golf! They were considerably heavier than the MK2, must of been dreadful.

[320touring]

They put a 60bhp 1.4 8v in the MK3 Golf! They were considerably heavier than the MK2, must of been dreadful.

4spd and no power steering. I had a mate with one, sump plug was siezed so took filter amd cranked it over til it stopped spitting oil.

 

new filter , fillerup and ragit:)

[cort16]

Remember that 1.4 golf plus from the ebay thread ages ago? Why did VW even offer that you wouldn't be able to drive it off the forecourt if you had more than one passenger in it.

[barefoot]

I have recently spoken to a bloke who is planning to fit the rotary engine from an RX8 into a VW splitscreen van.

So that's no real power until mega revs into something geared for flat out at 4,500rpm. It'll never pull it's top gear. Even assuming he doesn't discover that the only reason he got the engine so cheap is because it needs about a millionty pounds/hours spending on it.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Thing is, the 320i and 520i were all the biggest sellers.  The 518i was in many ways a better choice and like the 1.8i Carlton they could be a decent drive and good on fuel whilst humming along at 80.

 

2.4 V6 Granada hatchback. Even buyers agreed!

 

Carbed 2.0 Rover 820. Just awful.

 

V12 5.0 BMW stuff. 10bhp more than a 4.0 V8 and you're tipping fuel down its throat at the rate of 14-15 mpg.

 

The winner has to be the 1.3i Alfa 145. Launched everywhere else with the 1.7 boxer as a base engine, the 1.7 was so fartless pulling along a heavy car I dread to think how bad a 1.3 is.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Pointless but Glorious.

[Pete-M]

My old A6 2.8 Quattro was lucky to go 17 mpg around town. 30 on a run.

 

I lent it to a chap who's normal daily driver was a Bentley Turbo R. He moaned about the Audi being shit on fuel...

[Lacquer Peel]

They put a 60bhp 1.4 8v in the MK3 Golf! They were considerably heavier than the MK2, must of been dreadful.

 

My friend had one and it went okay, not much horsepower but quite torquey.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

When I had my Turbo R, my Espace fuckedup ( quelle surprise !) the day before a family jaunt to Provence.

 

Our only other cars were the Bentley or a 300tdi Disco with a dubious ( phoned in) recent MOT history, brother-in-law kindly loaned us his new Volvo XC90.......

Did I mention it was 2.9 Twin Turbo petrol transverse straight six?

An Austin 2200 would have been more comfortable, more economical and probably faster.

 

It used more fuel than the Turbo R and we never went faster than 70- might as well have gone in the Disco

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

You weren't overly impressed then?

[Formula Autos]

Didn't the Montego have the 1275 A Series in the base models?

 

That must have been a right barrel of laughs....

It existed. And my Father-in-law reckons the one he had was the best car he ever bought.

 

 

 

Strange bloke ......

[Squire_Dawson]

That would've been the A+ engine so not as lethargic as it may seem. The Morris Ital had it which must've been comparable in size and weight.

[Asimo]

"Diesel convertible" is as pointless as it gets IMHO.

 

 

[Stroller133]

Came here to say this. Surprise Beamers with the noise maybe, I don't think they are all that quick.

 

What about the 55bhp 1.3 from the MK2 Polo being plonked into the MK2 Golf? It was no ball of fire in the Polo and the MK2 Golf is rather chubby in comparison. Got 40 MPG in the Polo so can't imagine it's great in the Golf.

I loved my mk2 polo coupe with the 1.3, I swear it put out more than 55bhp, but that's all uk spec cars came with. It was noticeably slower in my mates mk2 golf formel E with stop/start. My house mate at uni had a 1.1 mk2 golf - that was slow!