In a message dated 8/10/2007 8:48:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
jello@ida.net writes:
Obligatory MG content.....Lotus - a car company that used to use MG
engines in some of their production cars (such as the midget engine in the
lotus 11) now uses a Toyota motor in their exige/elise line.
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Actually they didn't. Use the MG engine in the Lotus 11, that is. They used
a Ford engine in the non-race model while using the Coventry Climax engine in
the competition versions.
You must be thinking about the Lotus 7 which used a 948 and a very few 1098
(from 1963 they went all Ford). The engines didn't come from MGs - home
market cars used A35 engines while export cars got Austin Healey Bugeye motors.
Very sensible move to Toyota, I should think.
Bill
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