Biggest Car - Smallest Engine

[ashmicro]

Au contraire, the Rover 211i goes alright. 211 is an 8 valve, the Rover 25 1.1 is a 16v. The cars aren't very heavy.

 

Shirley the Audi 100CC must be the winner here?

[AnthonyG]

I was told there was an 1100 Cortina Mk1 or Mk2 sold in Greece or somewhere, but don't know if that's true. The VW Tiguan (Freelander rival) comes with a 1400 engine , not sure if thats 2wd or 4wd model though .

 

One generation of Transits (Mk3?) was available with a 1600 Pinto.

[cort16]

The new golf's available with a 1.2 with that tsi setup. It's still only got 85bhp though, which isn't much in a car with the girth of the new golf.

[Albert Ross]

Insignia....... 1.6 (Turbo) in a car longer than the last model Senator.....

 

Some areas got a 2004-2010 Astra 'H' with a 1.2 Chain drive 16V...... I bet progress was pedestrian. It's shit enough with a 1.4 in it.

 

UK got the 75ps 1.3 diesel Astra.... available in Estate form too.... seems a lot of fleet firms like them due to the low excise rates. I hate them because it's a fucking Fiat engine slammed into the wrong shell...

[fiatdaft]

Thankfully the 1.6t is more powerfull than the gutless 1800,i'm sure we got the 1400 tempra here,and euro land got a 1.1 tipo.

[mnde]

You can get an Octavia (inc Estate) with the 1.2 TSI 105hp engine. Doesn't go too badly apparently.

 

Mark

[rml2345]

I'd be willing to bet that a Mk2 Carlton estate with the 1.8 litre lump is pretty desperate. You could even have an automatic!

[Alexg]

Opel Astra, much like the UK one..... but with a 1.2 engine

 

[KruJoe]

I allways wondered how bad the rare Peugeot 405 1360cc style model was.

Probably not dissimilar to the BX 1360cc Actually not all that bad -surprisingly lively in fact. I can make good progress cross country. Ride and handling make up for a lot.

I haven't had experience of a pre-88 BX14 with the suitcase engine, that might be a different animal all together...

 

As for moderns, that new Kia Rio they're pushing on the telly at the moment, they reckon it'll beat 88mpg, look at the small print and it's a 1.1 diesel in what is not a small car. Is 80+mpg really worth the misery?

 

Another that springs to mind is those moped cars (sub 50cc) used by drunks in rural France, I forget what they call 'em... I know they're tiny, but 49cc ffs!

 

 

I can't imagine you'd see much more than 20mph from one.

[John F]

^ Love that car... weapon!

[STUNO]

Go back a few years to the Fiat 600 Multipla. I think that had to carry about 8 passengers plus a roof rack full of luggage.

[Dead_E23]

How about the BMW e34 518i. 1.8 8v with 115bhp....... Grim.

My father had an E12 518 automatic - that's the 89bhp carburettor engine. It was fine once you got it moving, but dangerously slow off the mark.

According to howmanyleft, they are now extinct.

[wuvvum]

Not a massive car but the mk.2 Golf came with a 1050cc engine

 

Yep - had one of those. It was actually not too bad around town - thanks to comedy low gearing it was quicker off the mark than a 1.3.

 

Wasn't there a 1-litre Allegro as well?

 

Had one of those too. That really was grim. Utterly gutless, despite comedy low gearing, and struggled to do over 70.

[Pillock]

Mk3 Cav came in 1.4 flavour for a few years. And the 4x4 version at launch was based on the 1.6 engine but with massive transmission losses - they then specced it up to the GSI later on.

[Cavcraft]

Never drove the 1.4 Mk3 Cavalier but I believe they were pretty gutless and not too good on juice due to the need to welly them to get anywhere.

 

The 4x4 Cav also came in 'run of the mill' 2.0 (C20NE I think) models but it was the GSi that caused transfer box problems if you didn't replace all the tyres at the same time as differing tread depths caused much agro.

[andrew e]

Mate of mine had a 1.4 saloon on an F (in a really odd metalic blue) back when we pasted our tests, it certainly felt as quick as the 1.4 Astra estate of the same age I had years later. XR4x4's and Syncros munch transmission too if there on mis-matched tread depths.

[Waderider]

1.2 Fiat Bravo performed better than the 1.4. The 1.4 had a shite single point injection wheezer of an engine, the 1.2 was more powerful and 16 valves. Wonderful cars

 

A 1.6 litre Volvo V40 is pretty bad.

[Polystratus]

Is there not a 1.4 Superb out now?

 

Yes there is, there's also a Skoda Yeti with a 1.2 engine, and there was a 1.0 Fabia but not sold in the UK.

[Guest]

some mk1 sierras came with a 1.3l pinto engine

 

rare as hens teeth these days and the engine and diff are worth a small fortune to the national hotrod/ brisca f2 lads if you ever drop on one

[Albert Ross]

some mk1 sierras came with a 1.3l pinto engine

 

rare as hens teeth these days and the engine and diff are worth a small fortune to the national hotrod/ brisca f2 lads if you ever drop on one

 

I had dibs on a Blue 3 door dangly jobbie locally (within 5 minutes walk) with a verbal agreement with the owner. He died, and the family rang the scrappies the next day. They gave about £30 for it, I'm told......(about 18 months ago) and I saw it being drifted around the yard...... dented to fuckeries. It was reasonably tidy too, prior to that.

[ProgRocker]

 

and the Cortina 1300.

 

1972 Ford Cortina 1300 L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

There was even a mark 3 with an 1100 cc engine - not for the UK market though.

[ProgRocker]

i'm sure we got the 1400 tempra here

 

Yes I owned a poverty spec 1990 Tempra 1.4 (that I later found out fired on 3 cylinders). It was dropped from the range in 1992. At some point...maybe when it was facelifted...the 1.6 8v engine went from 86 bhp to 76 bhp. Maybe when it was fitted with a catalytic converter.

 

The Marea saloon was available with the 1.2 80 bhp FIRE engine from the Punto in Europe.

[R9UKE]

Isn't Kia doing a 1.1 diesel in that new Rio thing just to make it even more hateful?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

By the way, although the nominal cc capacity was high enough, some of the old n/a diesels were highly inappropriate for the cars to which they were fitted. Someone mentioned the Marina, but I'm sure there's a lot more...

[Albert Ross]

Did someone call for a Taxi from the 1980's?

 

The 1.8 GL Granada.... this one's for sale apprently. Proper Mingebag spec.

[jonny69]

I always felt that the 1300 Capri must have been time-bendingly slow and I'm sure there was a 1300 Pinto engine in one of them. Ford loved their tiny engines though. There was the Mk1 and Mk2 Fiesta that we got with the 957cc Valencia (?) engine which was slower than the Ford Anglia from 30 years before. A mate at university had one and we had a drag race, with me in my 997cc Anglia-engined 107E. I won, to all our disbeliefses. I'm pretty sure the continent got an even smaller engine though; wasn't there an 800-something-cc motor that must have made it truly utterly shit? One of the small hatches got a teeny tiny engine that we didn't get, anyway.

 

Daewoo Matiz came with an 800cc lump in 2008 according to Google. The Matiz is probably lugging around a few bags of lard compared to the Fiesta.

[Guest Len H]

 

1.3 Wankel

 

 

1.3 Wankel

[wuvvum]

I think the Mk2 Escort was available with a sub-1-litre engine in Foreignerland too.

 

I always thought the Fiat Stilo was a bit of a hefty car for a 1.2-litre engine. Would imagine it probably weighed more than the Marea, which was basically just a Brava-with-a-boot, despite being marketed a class higher, and had the same waffer-thin body panels that dented if you so much as sneezed in their general direction.

[chaseracer]

I think the Mk2 Escort was available with a sub-1-litre engine in Foreignerland too.

The mk1 - it was a 940cc Kent crossflow. Possibly the Italian market? They had weird tax-break points.

 

Apparently, you could get a 1-litre alcohol motor for your mk3 in Brazil...

[Negative Creep]

How about this, available with a misey-inducing 1.2 64bhp engine