cylinder index question

[tnas at euronet.nl]

"Andrew Buc" <abuc at attglobal.net> wrote:

>For a while in the mid-80s, Chevy was selling a small Japanese-built captive
>import (I forget the name) w/a 4-stroke I3. I once commented to another Saab
>buff that the I3 didn't make the car a Saab.

>He said, "It doesn't make it a car!"

That was the Suzuki Swift, I've seen a few in the US but I can't recall what they were called.

I once owned a 3-cyl Swift, that was a great engine! 55 hp from 998 cc, on full song it sounded 
like a 911 flat-six. Pity the bodies didn't last...

Tom