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Best Engines for 900

posted by  someone claiming to be Charles on  Fri Apr 1 07:05 CST 2005 [RELATED]

".come on a 2.3 turbo SHOULD put out 300-400bhp"

Are you kidding?? Even the new Mitsubishi Evo MR squeezes only 240 horses out of a turbocharged 2.0L mill, and that engine is "hopped up" to the extreme. I doubt that we will see many of those on the road in eight or ten years.

For what it is, the B230FT is a fantastic engine. Admittedly, the numbers do not look impressive on paper, but the 740/940 is a light car (for a mid-sized sedan)and with a manual transmission and 3.73 gears, a 740T runs to 60 in 7.5 seconds. And returns fuel economy in the range of 25mpg on the highway! Show me another car with that level of performance and economy that will soldier on for 250K miles with little more than good, basic maintenance.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner!"






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