Engines available in every model
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@Albino-Kangaroo Reliant from 1995-2002, granted, they only had one model for most of that time, but the Rialto was still around for the first few years, so they did still have two for a little bit.
2022 Ioniq SE
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@Bandit All of the front wheel drive ones. Though I think you could get the 2.8 V6 in almost everything except full-size cars/trucks at one point.
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I think that in days of yore it was pretty common even at larger makers: Chevy with the "Six in the price range of a Four" years, Chrysler with the "Windsor" Six, Buick straight-eights, etc.
And of course there's the Model T, its spiritual successor the air-cooled VW... We're verging on an adjacent theme question, companies that made the same engine available in every model because they only had the one engine" (by choice or because it was all a smaller car maker could manage) here.
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@Albino-Kangaroo 90s and early 2000s jeeps could all be had with the 4.0 I6. Pretty sure every AMC ever made could be spec'd with a version of the I6 as well, although displacement changed a bit over the years.
As someone else said the 3.6 pentastar is used in all chryslers, most dodges (hornet is new so 2023 and a few years back), half the jeeps and some RAMs too. They make a few of them...
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@ranwhenparked Great find! I didn't know they kept making them for that long.
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@Albino-Kangaroo My deep knowledge of vintage BMWs lives and dies with the 2002 and similar, maybe a little E9. However, I think all of the Neue Klasse cars used some variant of the M10. So in 68/69 from BMW it would have been an M10 or M30
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@Albino-Kangaroo 2 put together makes a B36
!<img src="https://images.cdn.circlesix.co/image/1/700/0/uploads/memes/b36-54a85a397fa14.jpg" alt="Rare Volvo redblock V8!!! (B36)"/> never made it into cars but that woulda been sweet in an 18er 3600 coupe. -
@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo What is bothersome is that the B36 was produced mid 50's with a crossflow head (intake air goes on one side, exhaust comes out the other side of the head), and the B18 B20 had reverse flow meaning intake and exhaust go in and come out of the same side of the head. Volvo mostly used a combined intake and exhaust manifold that helped on fuel atomization and probably emissions but made the carbs nice and toasty. Probably fine for Sweden but in hotter climates vapor lock could be an issue. It also made it more difficult to modify the engine for more power.
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Like Volvo, I believe SAAB did a lot of single engine application for their platforms (granted, they usually only had several anyway). Must be a Swedish frugality thing.
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@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera Agreed. I like that VW found something that worked based on what I assume is late 1930's engine technology and kept with it for decades.
Modern Subaru's are similar. They do have a couple different engines these days, but 10-15 years ago they probably had the same engine (with minor spec differences, excluding STI) in 80% of their cars.
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@Albino-Kangaroo From the early 50s to the late 60s, every car with a Jaguar badge on it had an XK engine under the hood - that covered about a dozen models of saloons, sportscars and race cars. Came in four displacements and several varieties of cams and carbs over that period, but the same basic engine.
Jagroen fan & custodian of camellids. GT86, Octavia VRS, Pajero, Leaf
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@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi Damn, those engines were around for a while. I plan to read the wiki page on those engines. It sounds like they nailed the design early on and get going with it. Great example.
