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   XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: DB@cocks.net   
      
   On 8/4/2025 9:06 PM, c186282 wrote:   
   > (I do remember some scandal with Jaguars ... they   
   >    coated aluminum bores with Nikasil, but they did   
   >    not do it right and total extreme engine failure   
   >    was common. Next year it was coated STEEL cylinder   
   >    sleeves instead, much better)   
      
   That sounds like the Chevy Vega.  Unless the driver religiously changed   
   the oil and oil filter on schedule, carbon in the cylinders would strip   
   away the plated alloy in the cylinders (in lieu of rings and cylinder   
   sleeves) with the engine ruined at 28,000 miles.  The Durabuilt engine   
   with an iron block and sleeves and rings replaced the aluminum block   
   engine, but it was too late to save the brand.   
      
   The reverse from normal hinged hood, which opened from the windshield,   
   acted as a guillotine in front end crashes and beheaded the front seat   
   passengers.   
      
   IIRC, the Mazda Wankel rotary engine had similar flaws and had a life   
   span of under 30,000 miles while getting terrible gas mileage.  With the   
   Arab oil embargo happening, with long gas lines, the gas guzzling Mazda   
   rotary engines were the wrong engine for the time.   
      
   I recall at the time there were stories that the Vega, Pinto and Gremlin   
   were supposed to have rotary engines, but the sudden surge in gasoline   
   prices due to the embargo resulted in substitution of the awful Vega and   
   Pinto piston engines and the in-line 6 in the Gremlin. Detroit handed   
   the small car market to Japan on a silver platter. VW tried to maintain   
   its market share with the awful 411. The joke was that it needed 4 more   
   cylinders and was 11 years too late.   
      
   Then there was the Yugo and the Renault Alliance, LOL.   
      
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