OV9

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:47 am**

https://metro.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/

Online exhibition celebrating 40 years of the metro

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:33 am**

Splumph

The Metro 9X 6 cylinder is entirely unknown to my eyes. Anyone got any more info on it, and the engine, than this article from the site has?

https://metro.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/ego-quoque/

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:18 am**

I’ve seen it before but I’d always assumed it was the 6 cylinder version of the e-series designed for the maxi, but obviously not if it’s still only 1300cc. Weird that they’d even bother when they already had a 1275 4 cylinder a-series

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:02 pm**

Beany wrote: Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:33 am Splumph

The Metro 9X 6 cylinder is entirely unknown to my eyes. Anyone got any more info on it, and the engine, than this article from the site has?

https://metro.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/ego-quoque/

A 1275cc 6-hooter seems a bit silly?

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:31 pm**

I have found some more on the 9X (which was Issigonis's alternative proposal for a Mini replacement, not the engine's name) and its engines at the usual resource: https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and ... ts-bmc-9x/

That refers to the 6-cyl engine variant being intended for the Austin 1100/1300 replacement. The Metro with it in is mentioned briefly. I have found a photo of the Metro with the bonnet up though:

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:19 pm**

Burn the place to the ground

Hateful little cars.

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:48 pm**

Pretty decent cars for their time let down for the first 10 years by awful wheezy ancient engines ( unless you spend a ton of money on them ) and four speed gearbox.

And should have been killed off in 93/4 when the modern wave of superminis started to appear instead of the r100 facelift which made it a bit of a laughing stock.