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Re: AWD+

>Just an idiotic question:
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>How in friggin hell can someone make a 5 cylinder V engine???!?!? Inline 5 I
>understand but a V??? This is beyond my comprehension. 
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>Vytas Reipa
>Gaithersburg, MD
>87 5k  166k
>86 5kcst  104k
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Of course this was a joke, but still: why not a V5?  I guess it would
look like this?

(Please excuse my ASCII art...)

/-\
|1|--|
\-/  |
     |  /-\
     |--|2|
     |  \-/
/-\  |
|3|--|
\-/  |
     |  /-\
     |--|4|
     |	\-/
/-\  |
|5|--|
\-/  |
     |
Firing order-1,3,5/2,4

Eh?  Why not?  Definitely a small engine, less weight, "combination of
the efficiency of a 4-cylinder engine and the performance of a
6-cylinder engine," etc...

Hell, my V6 did this for a week or so anyway, (inop. spark plug) it
kinda works...

Elliott