These Otherwise Good Cars Are Saddled With Terrible Engines

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As we've antecedently talked about, location are plentifulness of bad cars pinch bully engines, but we've ne'er really considered nan opposite, and that's why past week I asked you what different bully car was saddled pinch a unspeakable motor. 

It's a mobility that sewage rather a batch of you riled up, wishing that these cars sewage nan motors they different deserved. We've sewage a wide scope of answers present — everything from capacity cars pinch not-so-performance-y engines and motors that are acold excessively analyzable for their ain good, to motors that are simply unreliable junk and motors that are conscionable worse than nan ones they replaced. Basically, what we've sewage present is thing for everyone. 

Anyway, that's capable retired of me. Head connected down beneath and cheque retired what cars your chap Jalops opportunity were saddled pinch unspeakable engines. If your car is connected nan list, I do apologize, but nan group has spoken.

Still looks for illustration it's arrived from nan future, turns heads for illustration a Ferrari. And it was nan closest modern BMW has ever gotten to building a ace car... isolated from for nan engine.

And I'm not moreover complaining astir nan hybrid drivetrain. Porsche, Ferrari and McLaren person built due PHEV ace cars, pinch decently powerful state engines. If nan i8 had nan M3 aliases M5 motor pinch a much powerful EV motor, it would beryllium an almost 1000 HP legend. 

Submitted by: caddak 2.0 turbo

The car looked great, and came pinch an NA motor that galore felt would beryllium an betterment successful reliability complete nan Turbo engines that came before, but nan immense rebuild marketplace tells a different story. Those were unreliable and not accelerated capable for nan car they were utilized connected (not moreover nan 231hp version was enough). And it's not for illustration Mazda didn't cognize immoderate better, because they had a akin communicative pinch nan RX7 FC NA a gutless motor that pumped retired a specified 150hp which was hardly capable connected a level surface, fto unsocial going uphill, but astatine lest that motor was "reliable" by rotary standard.

Submitted by: Tiago Bastos

Going Old School.

Fiero.

I had an 86 2M4. The 86 pinch nan hand-me-down suspension really had nosy handling and was a blast to drive... different than nan highly cultivation engine.

I drove a Fiero wherever personification had swapped retired nan Iron Duke for a Quad 4. Shaving disconnected astir 100 lbs and doubling nan horsepower transformed nan car.

But it besides transformed nan Quad 4. The Quad 4 was a overgarment mixer motor and wasn't suited for a emblematic Oldsmobile driver that wanted to put astir astatine debased RPMs wherever it was not producing powerfulness but vibrations and noise. In a sports car (like nan Fiero), nan NVH problems became characteristic and rasp. And a Quad 4 astatine precocious RPMs mightiness beryllium loud, but it's a nosy loud.

GM really made a version of nan Quad 4 that was expected to switch nan aged Iron Duke (nicknamed nan Quad 2). It had 30 much horsepower, weighed less, produced little emissions and sewage amended state mileage than nan Iron Duke . GM could person put nan Quad 2 successful nan Fiero 2M4 and fto Olds still person nan glory of nan Quad 4 for a bit. Then offered nan 2M4+ pinch an a hotrod Quad 4 (like nan W41 tune) alternatively of nan 2M6 and had 50-60 much horsepower and little weight than nan 2M6 pinch nan 2.8.

Submitted by: hoser68

Wasn't nan motor successful nan Delorean beautiful awful? 130 HP successful thing that should person had 300ish?

Submitted by: Nathan

The basal 140hp 1ZZ-FE Corolla/RAV4 motor successful nan MR2 Spyder was peculiarly frustrating. Toyota was already utilizing nan much powerful 180hp 2ZZ-GE successful nan Matrix, Celica and Corolla, which made nan determination moreover much questionable.

Submitted by: Stephen.

The caller Mercedes C63. The motor itself was good and made alot of power, and would person been awesome!...in a caller Mitsubishi Evo 11. But paying 80K for fundamentally THE introduction level "Real" AMG, and it's a 4 banger is conscionable heartbreaking, and deficiency luster income speaks volumes. I've seen much GT/SLs and CLE 53s since their debuts than nan C63 ( I deliberation I've seen only 1 driving around). All that engineering and method prowess down nan drain.

Submitted by: Agon Targeryan

Jaguar XJ220. I mean nan motor was still awesome, but a ttv6 successful what should person been an outlandish V12 was wildly disappointing. 

Submitted by: penginsftw

Focus RS for nan caput gasket debacle. Also Ford stroked retired nan 2.0 to 2.3, put 23lbs of boost successful it, but went from closed to unfastened platform for cooling– which they past botched pinch nan caput gasket.

Properly fixed they are awesome cars. I ain 1 and emotion it. But astir group extremity up getting a closed 2.0 ST block, and building it up to a 2.3 stroker if they request to switch nan engine. Or want to tune it up overmuch past 400/400.

Submitted by: Enviro5609

Any Range Rover pinch nan 5.0.

I've had astir a half twelve Rovers including nan NA 4.4, nan Jag Supercharged 4.2 and nan newer supercharged 3.0, and nary person fixed maine immoderate issues speech from immoderate extraneous cooling pipes and an alternator/starter present and there.

When successful awesome style and maintained good (at a ample cost) nan 5.0 is simply a beautiful and soft motor, but erstwhile nan timing concatenation clank of decease starts rearing it's disfigured head, you're gonna request 5-6 1000 of your champion dollars to rectify nan issue.

Other than that, Rover had worked retired galore of nan kinks that non-Rover owners emotion to bring up arsenic topics whenever they perceive you are an owner.

Submitted by: Darwin Brandis

I spot a batch of bully ones taken already, truthful let's spell pinch this:

The F bid Super duties pinch nan 6.4l. nan creation of these trucks was fantastic. They were modern, functional, intelligibly a ford product, pinch an EXTREMELY handsome interior. This was expected to beryllium Ford's comeback story, erasing nan 6.0 nightmare from nan minds of nan faithful. It was powerful. It sounded damn good. It was smooth. It ran clean. It came pinch a manual transmission option!

But past very quickly, we each started to recognize that it wasn't nan en we wanted. Fuel mileage that rivaled a large artifact gasser, exhaust regen that started brushwood fires, insanely conplex nether hood, and past nan existent problems started. We quickly recovered retired that they suffered from what I for illustration to telephone "Chrysler syndrome"

3 retired of 5 of them were perfectly reliable, but nan different 2 retired of 5 needed a caller motor by 200,000 miles. Not a immense woody erstwhile you're talking astir a small v6.....but erstwhile a caller (used) motor retired of warranty is simply a $15,000 connection connected a motortruck not moreover 10 years old, well, we each sewage that emotion that it was clip to either move to a gasser aliases conscionable spell bargain a Cummins.

The 6.7l that replaced it, though, is fantastic.

Submitted by: Randy Byron

Definitely 4U-GSE / FA20 successful 86 / BRZ / FRS ZN6 1st gen, it's soyboy weak-ass motor and decidedly nan weakest nexus successful 86.

Not only they hardly negociate 100 hp / litre which is overmuch little potent and importantly worse than decade-old S2000 and Integra Type-R DC5 but they garbage to springiness it a turbo and conscionable springiness a stupid statement too

Had they put turbo, it will go indirect successor to Nissan Silvia Spec-R S15. Instead they gave america anemic statement that by putting turbo will make it unaffordable to nan market, unluckily Ford Mustang Ecoboost S550 6th gen and Chevrolet Camaro 1LS 6th gen beryllium otherwise

Pleas for amended beefier stronger torquier motor for years was yet listened, only for them to adhd miniscule 5 hp and 5 lbft successful nan facelift version. Yep you publication that right, only 5 !!!

And aft they were superior astir this, they yet made 86 GRMN which is not only 20 hp and 20 lbft much powerful but besides lighter which is what 86 / BRZ / FRS should person been successful nan first place. But it costs doubly nan price, for illustration virtually TWICE THE PRICE !!!!

Luckily seems Toyota and Subaru realized nan correction and springiness a due motor for 2nd gen without excessively overmuch of value hike. But it's really decade excessively late, they should person started nan the life of this car pinch that engine

Submitted by: Derry