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Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER
Also the 3 cylinder 2 stroke Fiesta ! I had one of the engines kicking about for a few years. I brought it off of a bloke that was doing tests for Ford on a dyno and I eventually flogged it to a museum in Wales. I believe that the Haynes museum has a complete car as well.
The engine was very compact and built by the Orbital outfit in Australia but I think it was dropped by Ford because of the emissions limits that were coming into place at the time.
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Some of these went to the Police on a long term independent testing basis as a "Panda "/general runabout .
I believe Essex & Suffolk , [both not far from R&D at Boreham ] , had them .
Don,t know many details , but as you say , with a direct oil injection lubrication , they probably would not meet ongoing emissions standards .