quattro Digest, Vol 3, Issue 172 - cylinder index question

[Larry C. Leung]

Geo Metro.

They did have a 4 cyl, 1.3 liter Swift model, dubbed the GTi. In the US
at least, it had comparable performance to the "real" one, although I'd 
image at top speeds, stability would've been a little lacking. 

LL - NY


> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:39:50 +00100 (MET)
> From: <tnas at euronet.nl>
> Subject: Re: cylinder index question
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
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> "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