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Originally Posted by Dingo
The Sarich Orbital engine, did Ford put this engine in a WB Festiva at one stage for testing I recall there may have been 30 prototypes.........
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I recall similar memories of the Festiva with Orbital.
But for the benefit of anyone interested, to my knowledge there was never a genuine road car development program with the original "orbital" Orbital engine. They put it in the "too hard basket" after a few years, and went on to develop reciprocating engine designs incorporating their clever fuel injection and emission control systems they had designed in conjunction with the original "orbital" engine, retaining the Orbital company name.
Note from the article referred to in post#1 of this thread - "Perhaps the most interesting application of this was the aXcess Australia concept of 1998. It featured a 2.0-litre, supercharged Orbital two-stroke inline-six with 120kW and 250Nm."
I found it to be a bit misleading, personally, but they made lots of money.
Cheers.