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Also called the Pinto engine, Ford's first fully metric engine. People get very leery when they hear "Pinto," but of all the Pinto's problems the engine wasn't one. That engine saw long, reliable duty as the base engine in the Ranger, and the bottom end was sturdy enough that in the Mustang SVO it could deliver 175 horsepower without modification. That turbo engine DID suffer from reliability problems but they were related to the turbo, not the engine architecture itself.

FoMoCo cranked out the Lima 2.3 for over 20 years, so evidently it was worth building. I say that knowing the Thriftpower line went for FIFTY years but still, 20 is nothing to sneeze at.