[Mgs] car factoid

[WSpohn4 at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/10/2007 8:48:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
jello at 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