When power output dropped from 150 to 125 with the introduction of the mild=
er =
cam, the factory claimed it had improved torque.=A0IMHO I always felt the e=
arlier =
PI car had more=A0torque than the later one. Drove many versions of both PI =
varieties, as well as the US spec variant, and the only thing about the lat=
er PI =
variant was it was certainly a smoother running car and better in heavy tra=
ffic. =
The key reason for introducing the 125bhp car was that the cam=A0made the P=
I for =
Germany and France a little better for early emission control requirements =
in =
those countries and as those regulations were soon to go into more Euro mar=
kets, =
it was decided to make the car 'fit' forthcoming legislation.
Jonmac
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