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Message: <blockquote data-quote="si|verfish" data-source="post: 1780051" data-attributes="member: 2758">On how a new company can make it work, dump money into it. Buy the technology (which is what they are doing, similar to the other Chinese company buying Rover). Hire the brains. Extrapolate from there on.Prototypes are always going to be technological showcases to prove what can be done. Of course, it isn't going to go straight into mass production. What you want is the design and the technology from that engine which can be leveraged upon. Much better than scratching your head in the dark by yourself. If someone has the seeds, I'll use them, that's the theory. Sure, it'll cost a lot of money to continue development and make it viable for mass production but it'll definitely cost more (and take longer) if you were to start everything from square one.Of course, they aren't going to start building 2.0 litre 200bhp engines and sticking it into their cars. Its a platform where lower spec (and cheaper) derivatives can be made. The reports say that the design is viable for 1.8, 2.0 and 2.2 litre derivatives, medium sized family saloon teritory. Proton could use with engines like that. The last time I read, the campro engine design can't stretch that far. If they were to build a Waja replacement or a Perdana replacement, they could use with such an engine, which they don't have and that unfortunately means having to buy it from other people.A lot of people's gripes with this is that Proton had the opportunity and it looks a good option for them (especially when they seem to have issues developing engines on their own). They could have worked with what Petronas already had. Whether or not they would make a 100bhp per litre road going engine is irrelevant (Honda don't just make type-R engines with their designs ok, they are found in cooking Civics and Accords as well).</blockquote>

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