to german enginering...

[Tom Nas]

"luke" <maytagasm at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>and august horch was the first automobile engineer to ever specifically
>try to lighten
>his cars... by using alloys for the blocks...

Not quite. There might be others, but I distinctly remember the ill-fated
Hillman Imp of the mid-1960s as having an all-alloy engine. Audi might have
been one of the first to actually do it successfully...

Tom