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- From: morton@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton)
- Subject: Re: BMW M3 Inquiry
- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:32:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.043223.22114@julian.uwo.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan26.130807.1@sdl.ug.eds.com> richardk@sdl.ug.eds.com writes:
- >...great gobs of hot air deleted...
- >
- >> it was the 190E 2.3-16, which had the 2.3 liter 4-cylinder
- >> with a 16 valve cosworth head. the 2.6 liter is a shrunken version
- >> of the 3 liter inline-6 and has only 2 valves per cylinder (and
- >> would not have 16 valves in any event). the 190E 2.3-16 is no
- >> longer sold in the U.S., but it's still available in europe.
- >> didn't sell too well because of the 300E, which was bigger, faster,
- >> and cost less.
- >
- >
- >You may be correct about the US Merc 190's, but in Europe (or at least the UK)
- >there is no such thing as a 2.3 Merc 190. There _IS_ a 2.6 16v which must
- >simply be a big(ish) 4 cylinder job.
- >
- >I dunno why I'm mailing this really - hope someone's suitably fascinated! :-)
-
- Here I am! Let me clear something up that this first guy said: The 190E 2.3-16
- is no longer sold in Europe. It was dropped with the advent of the 190E 2.6,
- not the 300E, because customers weren't interested in the 2.3 when they could
- buy the 2.6 with only slightly less power for much less money.
-
- Now for you: The 190E 2.3 obviously didn't make it to the UK, but it was
- definitely sold in the rest of Europe -- my neighbour in Wiesbaden, Germany,
- has one. The 16V you're talking about is the 2.5-16, not a 2.6-litre, which is
- the six-cylinder. An F-reg. 190E 2.5-16 goes for about #19000, and a G-reg.
- 2.6 for about #15000.
-
- -- Brent
- morton@artifis.gaul.csd.uwo.ca
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