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Yes

Good lord.

Well I never.


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25 years ago. And the design was *abandoned* seven years ago. You lose.

 

No, it wasn't. When it was launched to Honda's dealers, Honda
specifically said i was intendedt o clobber th Kawsaki 900R.

Wrong again.

You're digging a deeper hole with every posting

 

Lozzo with period pains.

 

Which had no effect on servicing costs?

 

Really? Which was that then? ISTR that milestone happening closer to
1980 than 1970.

 

you can always cheat; my car puts out 230bhp from 1.3 litres ;-)

 

Oh yes, the Norton strategy.

 

coming up to date, I understand the later models of the Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo are putting out over /two/ hundred bhp per litre.

Forced induction is possible also considered as cheating.

 

Anyone else would've had a bite, but not Mr Og 'Wind-up' Den.

 

Civic Type R, Golf GTI, Focus ST are all around or bang on the
100bhp/litre.

 

The swop from gear to chain cam drive has no effect on servicing costs,
but the V-tec system does when it comes to valve clearance checks. It
wasn't entirely clear just how much they cost to service whrn they
first hit the dealers, that info came later once a few of them had done
enough mileage to require a major service.

 

darsy wrote:

The Evo 4 5 and 6 are rated at 280bhp, I'm not sure about the 7 and
onwards. I don't really like the look of the later ones anyway.

 

http://www.worldcarfans.com/109052619593/mitsubishi-lancer-evo-x-fq-400-unleashed-in-the-uk

 

Only by fools.

 

Well above, for current models.

But they're top-end hot hatches - for the sake of comparing with a Pan
Euro, rather than a supersports 600, I was deliberately looking at more
workaday vehicles like the VW Polo.

 

Blimey, us that all.

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Just about any two-stroke?

For four-strokes, Honda's little CB125T was knocking out something
like 13-14 real-world bhp (17 claimed) in 1977. I think its CB92
sportster of the previous decade was over 100bhp/litre, too.
Kawasaki's Z650 was 64bhp claimed, so fractionally under the 100bhp
bar, but close enough.

For "big bikes", you're probably right. Later Suzuki GSX1100 variants
were producing more than 120bhp, and then there was the crop of sporty
550s.

It's hard to tell for many machines, as magazine dyno testing didn't
really start until the early 1980s, but there were certainly some
remarkable little engines around.

 

(SteveH) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia_Fulvia

OK, it only got to 83bhp/litre - but, to be fair, that was in the early
'70s. Alloy head & crankcase, but a cast iron block - I dunno if that
disqualifies it for you?

 

Well some of them, sure, although you're right in inferring that I was
really meaning four strokes. And ref your point lower down, I was also
thinking about big ones (fnaar) and although I think the H1 was
nominally higher than 50bhp (but really?), not many of the others
were, even at quoted figures. ISTR neither the H2 nor the kettle were
much more than 65-70.

33 years ago.

Furry muff, that's one.

Again, not even close to 40+ years ago.