re: ALPHA ROMEO

["Tony Sims" <simstony@domain.elided>]

Glenn Wasserman wrote:
>
>Er, the 535i does have a V8, and the 325's are al V6's. Karl had a typo in
his email >below :-)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Sims [mailto:simstony@domain.elided]
>Sent: Tue 4/2/2002 12:15 AM
>To: Alfa Digest
>Cc: karlcchen@domain.elided
>Subject: re: ALPHA ROMEO
>
>
>Karl Chen karlcchen@domain.elided wrote:
>>
>>The new "standard catalog of imported cars" listed
>>"ALPHA ROMEO" all over the place.  To see it in
>>classified is one thing but in a published
>>book is quite a shock.  The book is full of other
>>errors, like the 95 BMW 530i is V8 engine not I6...
>>
>>Karl Chen
>
>
>I'm way behind on digests so MAIA for the late comments --
>
>I mentioned in an e-mail to a relative that I was meeting someone from the
>Alfa club in South Africa -- they mailed back with "What's the Alpha
club?"...
>Argh.
>
>I saw a BMW 535i listed on eBay a while back that the owner listed as a V8,
>and in my local newspaper it's a rare weekend that doesn't have a classified
>ad for a 325 claiming to have a V6.  I always want to call these people and
>ask them if they've ever actually opened the hood of their car...
>
>Tony
>Portland, OR
>74 GTV (I think it's a U4, it looks that way from the top...)


As I understood his message, Karl was right -- BMW, in their normal yet
confusing process of model evolution, used to fit the 530 with a smaller
displacement version of the V8 in the 540.  Now it has the same 3.0 I6 as the
330.  In 1995 the 530 was a V8.

Jet lag may be affecting my humor lobe, so my apologies if I missed a joke,
but no modern street BMW has a V6, and the 535 was an I6.

Alfa content -- We'd all be happier and less inclined to ramble about B cars
and P cars if they'd just let us have the 156 and 166 (and please, please, the
147 T-spark) in the USA!  I know about the Autodelta scheme, but the cost is
prohibitive to cheap guys like me.
Cheers,
TS

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