[DMCForum] Re: Kicking Martin's What? (With 200 HP)
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[DMCForum] Re: Kicking Martin's What? (With 200 HP)



Believe it or not, I'm quoting a poll on the Top Gear website that
voted the Northstar as the greatest engine ever, this was at least a
year ago if not 2...

Who generally accepts this Nissan engine as the greatest ever?

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> I would suggest that outside the US (and perhaps Australia), Nobody
has
> heard of the Cadillac Northstar.Has it got the following of the
Rover
> V8? Somehow I doubt it. And yes, the Rover V8 was originally an
american
> lump, but they decided there was no future in aluminium blocks so
sold
> the rights to Rover for peanuts......... any questions?
>
> Look up Nissan's RB26DETT engine on Google. That is generally
accepted
> as the best road-going performance engine ever made
>
> ....oh look, it's only 2.6 litres.
>
> Martin
>
> John Dore wrote:
>
> > Martin,
> >
> > Wasn't the Cadillac Northstar V8 generally accepted as one of the
> > greatest engines ever? On both sides of the Atlantic...
> >
> > What about the Hoover Dam? The Big Dig in Boston? Mount Rushmore?
The
> > NYC skyline?
> >
> > Americans make great engineers!
> >
> > I would hardly consider Jeremy Clarkson or Quentin Willson
> > journalists if it is their opinions on American engineering you
have
> > embraced.
> >
> > There is nothing so complicated about the European or Japanese
method
> > of engine design that any American automotive engineer could not
> > easily grasp. Its just that those tiny engines that sound like
vacuum
> > cleaners don't suit the American market. Most Americans (and yes
lots
> > of Europeans too!) simply like big engines. Those who don't like
big
> > engines will never understand those who don't, and I think that is
> > the way it will remain till our dying days!
> >
> > John


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