On 7/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote an article for Popular Mechanics some years ago about car repair > difficulty. I arranged for about a dozen popular models to be delivered to an > automotive service center. The best mechanic in the house performed six > repairs to each car. He scored them one to ten, easy to most difficult. When > the results were in the big loser was a rear engine V-6 Pontiac Fiero (a car > long since out of production). That car was followed by seven or eight > front-drive cars. I think it was a Honda that came in as second hardest to > repair. All of those that scored well were front-engine/rear drive cars. The > top finisher was a front-engine/rear drive Chevrolet Caprice, a dinosaur by > any measure, but very easy to repair.
Apparently, repairing those V6 Fieros was mostly moot anyway. They lived up to their name and tended to catch on fire a lot. Although the V6 was a huge improvement on the little straight 4 in terms of power and torque, that big engine in a tiny engine compartment had a tendency to severely overheat. The results could be somewhat disconcerting, as the mid-ship-mounted motor was about 6 inches behind the driver's head. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
