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    Engine Of The Day: Lotus 900 Series

    1974 Jensen-Healey

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    Image of earlofhalflight earlofhalflight
    05/09/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Lotus 900 Series
    Probably worth mentioning that the 900 series won the World Rally Championship in 1981 when fitted to the Sunbeam Lotus.


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    Image of P.Ξ.L.M. wonders if he should change his Xterra P.Ξ.L.M. wonders if he should change his Xterra
    05/09/09

    @earlofhalflight: Lucas lights?


    mmm...

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/10/09

    @P.Ξ.L.M., The Amazing Blinking Airbag Light: There's four lights for redundancy.
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    Image of ƒß✓ ƒß✓
    05/09/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Lotus 900 Series
    *sigh* They could at least Lotusify the current Toyota I4s... I mean, really. Is there any reason to actually buy a Lotus when you can buy an old Corolla and strip out all the interior/safety/emissions equipment and have yourself just as good of a car?


    /hopefully it was obvious that I was being sarcastic...

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    Image of JawzX2: Hoon The Earth @ www.cafepress.com/jawzx2 JawzX2: Hoon The Earth @ www.cafepress.com/jawzx2
    05/09/09

    @FBJ: Man, my 2000 VVTi 1.8l 1zz-fe equipped Corolla was a little screaming ripper, as long as you didn't need to go around corners...
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/10/09

    @JawzX2: Now with 100% more employment!: So you're saying it should have been sold as a Chevrolet?


    *rimshot*

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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    05/09/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Lotus 900 Series
    Tell me why Lotus can design winning engines for other people and can't put them into their own cars. It just seems crazy to put Toyota's 4-cyl in your car when you have designed many 4-cylinder engines yourself.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/09/09

    @philibuster: I think the difference is "design" vs. "design well"--I can design a cool spaceship, but it ain't gonna fly.
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    Image of .357 .357
    05/09/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Lotus 900 Series
    I always liked the Excel. (Not the Microsoft one)
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/09/09

    @.threefiveseven: Lotus>Microsoft>Hyundai.



    You're gonna need the spare.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/09/09

    @.threefiveseven: Me too!
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/09/09

    @FuzzyPussycow: :shakes fist: Damn youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    05/09/09

    @A strolling player: Where's DamnElantra when you need him?
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    Image of .357 .357
    05/09/09

    @A strolling player: Nice oxidation on that one.
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    05/09/09

    @FuzzyPussycow: For the price of a new Lotus Excel, you can have many spares.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/09/09

    @A strolling player: Sick fuck.
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    Image of the new guy: now with ecoboost the new guy: now with ecoboost
    05/09/09

    @FuzzyPussycow: This ad is now being read in your head in Jeff Bridges' voice.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/10/09

    @the new guy: I couldn't hear his voice in my head, so I looked him up...


    ...and found out that his voice is exactly how I'd imagined the ad.

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    Image of oddboxalfa oddboxalfa
    05/09/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Lotus 900 Series
    These things are best known for their leaky gaskets. My friends Jensen Healey had a permanent oil drip pan located on the garage floor to catch the oil between the rather infrequent drives it enjoyed. Not quite add a quart before every use, but enought drips to assure that the garage floor deserved a pan.
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    Image of Armand Armand
    05/09/09

    @oddboxalfa: That's not a Lotus 900-series issue, dude. It's not even specifically a Lotus issue. It's a British issue. One of those garage-floor drip pans was one of the first things I purchased after I got my Sunbeam.
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    Image of yowen yowen
    05/09/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Lotus 900 Series
    Why was it called the torqueless wonder?
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    05/09/09

    @yowen: +1. I am guess you had to rev the nuts out of that thing to get any sort of power?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/09/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver: Any time the word "nut" is used in conjunction with a car's engine is a good thing.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/09/09

    @FuzzyPussycow: As in, "enjoy your new heart-click".


    Example 2: "Compared to the 900 turbo-four, the Esprit's V8 was endowed with much nut."

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    Image of P.Ξ.L.M. wonders if he should change his Xterra P.Ξ.L.M. wonders if he should change his Xterra
    05/09/09

    @FuzzyPussycow: Try to fit "Dodge Nitro", "Bruce" and "nut" in a sentence.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/09/09

    @P.Ξ.L.M., needs to fix that rust hole...: "Dodge Nitro" and "nut" go hand-in-hand.
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    Image of tяs tяs
    05/09/09

    @P.Ξ.L.M., needs to fix that rust hole...: Bruce busted a nut in his new Dodge Nitro.


    That was easy.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/10/09

    @tяs: You know what's sad? That was the exact phrase I thought of.


    This Jalopnik thing is getting to us.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/09/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Lotus 900 Series
    And the Esprit V8 made 355 horsepower, hm. Great ideas just keep floating my way. That should drop right in.
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    Image of Armand Armand
    05/09/09

    @A strolling player: Think about this: The Lotus Esprit, whether you're talking about the original '75 version or the last V8 model, uses a gearbox derived from the one in the Renault 16.


    If you're anything like me, learning this caused you to think about how cool it would be to build a Renault 16 with a 355-horsepower twin-turbo V8.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/09/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Lotus 900 Series
    280 horsepower for about five seconds before head-gasket failure, I assume?
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/09/09

    @FuzzyPussycow: Let's not split hairs.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    This guy is hero material. Cool car.
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    Very good condition, I like.


    I still do NOT like that there is no weekday DOTS.

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    Image of DrLemming DrLemming
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    Ah, the charm of British sports cars. Too bad they lost the thread in the 1970s. The Jensen-Healey was supposed to herald the revival of the genre but instead was trumped by the Datsun Z-240.


    Sure, the Jensen-Healey's bumpers looked like battering rams, but the bigger problem was that the overall design suffered from British malaise. The iconic beauty of the Austin-Healey could not be summoned from the dead by a design team that may as well have consisted of postal service bureaucrats puttering in a garage on weekends. The Jensen-Healey had little soul and even less stylistic sophistication. Given the legacy of the Austin-Healey, that was an unforgivable sin. The Z may have been merely a good design, but it ate the Jensen-Healey for breakfast. Snap, crackle, pop.


    Let's compare. Whereas the Z sported a lovely tapered front with shades of the Jaguar XK-E, the Jensen-Healey settled for a refrigerator-flat facia with headlight cutouts from a Hasbro toy. Or compare the Z's lovely sculpted hood budge to the Jensen-Healey's dump truck-like protrusion. The Z's back was its weakest design element, but it had much better detailing than the Jensen-Healey's chopped-off pig's butt. Most importantly - and tragically - the Jensen-Healey's profile had the hips of a nun compared to the Z, let alone the pornographic curves of the senior Austin-Healeys of yore.


    How could the Japanese do a better British sports car than the British? Chalk it up to industrial disease.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @DrLemming: Goodness me! Could it be?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    One of my favorite favorites ever.

    Happy the man who has enjoyed that treat for twenty years.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    It's a gorgeous car, in the perfect color... hell, even the bumpers can't ruin it for me. But the wheels are my favorite part.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    That Jensen is amazingly clean and straight, much less for being on the street and a daily driver. I have a feeling that there's generally a garage involved in this equation. I'm glad this is the fellow that got the one exceptional car that proves the Lucas rule.


    Thanks for the fix Murilee. It's been a rough week, what with the shakes and chills, the gradual recovery of appetite and sanity. This is so much better.

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    Image of sos10 sos10
    03/07/09

    In reply to 1974 Jensen-Healey
    I wonder if people come to Alameda, park their car and look out for that sexy photographer to drive along.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/07/09

    @sos10: That's what I'm going to do. Then flirt shamelessly.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/07/09

    @sos10: Thanks, you've just told the whole world about my secret plan! Now I'm going to have to think of something else.
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    Image of Armand Armand
    03/07/09

    @sos10, engineerd thinks cannoli is deserving of a star, Novaload Misses Murilee: Should we just go as a pack? Murilee seems to have some sort of cool-car radar; if we all went, he'd be sure to find us, no matter where on the island he was.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    03/07/09

    @Armand Bengle: never underestimate the power of her Cardar.
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