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Originally posted by Tella:
Why, when someone talks about cars is it automatically assumed the person is male? I'm not sure what is wrong with saying V4, I'm assuming then that is the wrong term? So sue me. I'm no greasemonkey, and I have never driven a car newer then 20 years old. To me this is a pretty big thing. I'll go off and stop bothering the "pros" now. I guess someone who doesn't know everything about cars isn't very welcome here, and just has to tolerate ridicule form those who can't seem to understand that some people are actually here to get help because they actually need it.
I'll slink off to somewhere else where others are just as stupid and uneduacated as me.
There is a reason why they call it a "v6" or a "v8" primarily because the cylinders are angled so that they make a "V" 3 on each side of the engine. Either way, there was never such an engine as a "v4" an interesting concept... But the only thing I have ever seen out of a 4 cylinders is an inline 4... Which means all of the cylinders are in one straight line. Amaizingly, there are a LOT of people I know who had no idea that there was no such thing as a "v4" There also was such thing as an inline 6 and inline8. they tend to be called "straight 6's" or "straight 8's" But the technology kind of phased out over the years. some of the older GMC Trucks had them... I think my dad's old 95 S-10 had a straight 6 in it.
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Thank you so much for explaining that to me. I didn't know any of it, but it makes a lot of sense. It will also make it much easier for me to identify what size engine it is in the future. All my cars up until now have always been V8 or V6, so I just asumed that was the correct technical term for all engine sizes. 
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BMW still has all its 6 cylinder engines as straight 6's. No v6's but they do have V8s and V12's
Subaru has a horizonally opposed 4 cylinder engines.
Once I had straight 6 engines in a 65 Plymouth and a 67 Chevy Van.
4 cylinder I4 or a straight 6 makes a lot of sense. One less catalytic converter than a V configuration and half the number of O2 sensors. Cheaper to maintain.
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Originally posted by dellowm:
BMW still has all its 6 cylinder engines as straight 6's. No v6's but they do have V8s and V12's
Subaru has a horizonally opposed 4 cylinder engines.
Once I had straight 6 engines in a 65 Plymouth and a 67 Chevy Van.
4 cylinder I4 or a straight 6 makes a lot of sense. One less catalytic converter than a V configuration and half the number of O2 sensors. Cheaper to maintain.
But considerably less power (unless you are BMW that is...)
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Originally posted by dellowm:
BMW still has all its 6 cylinder engines as straight 6's. No v6's but they do have V8s and V12's
Subaru has a horizonally opposed 4 cylinder engines.
Once I had straight 6 engines in a 65 Plymouth and a 67 Chevy Van.
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Used to own a Ford Gran Torino Straight Six (I think it was a 1975 model). I think the idea with horizontally opposed cylinders was that it was more "evenly" distributed due to gravity (or so they say when I first heard of them in a car). But it probably did not catch on as it takes up too much space on a horizontal plane. And once again an V configuration would be more space saving as opposed to a straight line configuration.
P/s Ms. Tella, stick around, there is a lot to learn from this site. Most of us are pretty o.k. folks. 
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Well, just to enlighten a few people, Ford US had a 1.7L 60 degree V-4 engine that was in one of the original Mustang concept cars. It was the mid-engine Mustang. Ford didn't (obviously) build the car for sale so they sold the motor to Ford of Germany. They used it extensivley and sold some V-4's to Saab for use in the Saab Sonnett III and a couple regular model cars. Then they also added 2 more cylinders and the various V-6 engine sizes were 2L, 2.3L, 2.6L, 2.8L, 2.9L and 3L, for Europe. In the US we had/have the 2.8L, 2.9L (truck), 3L (truck), 4L (truck & '05 Mustangs). And of course the 60 degree design is what our Duratech use. And now alot of you youngsters and Tella have learned somethin' new. Sometimes old is good, EH.
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Cool! Thanks for letting us all know that. So I wasn't 100% wrong in saying V4! *does smug happy dance* 
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. Pepse.
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Dude, There are V4 engines out there and not every 4 cylinder is an inline 4. My Subaru uses an opposing 4 cylinder set up like the old Volkswagens, only with a water cooled engine. These cars have two cylinder heads and 4 cylinders. Gotta remember that just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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Never said they didn't exist - I only implied they are not found on the Ford Contour. Also a horizontally opposed 4 cylinder is not a V4 either. The whole premise of my original comment had to do with what Stazi posted a week or so ago, and that is newbies coming in and not SEARCHING for answers to OBVIOUS questions - when someone comes in and starts asking about a V4 Contour, I have to immediately question the credibility of the post.
Had the original poster simply popped the hood and looked in the engine bay the number of cylinders and configuration (inline or vee) would have been an obvious deduction.
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