New 2018 GOLDWING

[dadeo]

I think his face is as wide as the rocket.

[druggr]

How many miles were on it when the engine when kaput ?

I never owned a Vega, but back in the 70s, if a car had 100,000 miles on it, it was pretty much an oil burner or soon to be. If I recall, a Vega became an oil burner around 60k.

[druggr]

It's has aluminum cylinder sleeves

Anyone know what kind of life those have. Wasn't that what made the Chevy Vega a failure ??? Hopefully the technology today is different.

http://www.sunnen.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=11

I found this. Hopefully the new Wing has hyper eutectic-aluminum cylinder bores "When properly finished, hypereutectic-aluminum cylinder bores present a surface to the piston rings that's roughly equivalent to glass [Figure one]. The resulting engine has lower friction, excellent sealing, improved dimensional stability, improved heat dissipation, reduced weight, better recyclability, lower manufacturing cost and higher durability - compared to the traditional aluminum block with cast-iron cylinder liners."

I wonder if "improved heat dissipation" means that the new engine will have round pistons instead of ones that are slightly oval ???