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Old 05-24-2010, 09:02 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Someone proposed the idea once before here. IMO it would be going backwards. If you want FE, why trade a 1.0L lean burn engine for a 1.5L lean burn engine? Plus you just lost regen. Sounds like a loose loose swap to me.
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