RE: ALPHA ROMEO

["Glenn Wasserman" <glennwa@domain.elided>]

No, was temporarily dazed and didn't note the distinction between I6 and V6. Ignore me please :-)

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Tony Sims [mailto:simstony@domain.elided] 
	Sent: Tue 4/2/2002 11:32 AM 
	To: Alfa Digest 
	Cc: Glenn Wasserman 
	Subject: re: ALPHA ROMEO
	
	
	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 <msn://@domain.elided@/compose.htm?NW=true&mailto:karlcchen@domain.elided>  
	>Subject: re: ALPHA ROMEO
	>
	>
	>Karl Chen karlcchen@domain.elided <msn://@domain.elided@/compose.htm?NW=true&mailto: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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