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Originally Posted by Laird Scooby
Trawling through t'internet to try and find some figures, it seems the B18D with twin carbs and B cam produced ~95bhp and gave similar performance to an MGB of the time which, if memory serves was 0-60 in ~13s and top end ~100mph - these figures are slightly vague as i can't remember the MGB figures but know they were around those numbers.
A bit more usefully, i found an advert from c. 1964/5 that proudly announced the 122S returned 25+mpg. This might not sound like something to celebrate but those were US gallons, ~0.8 of an Imperial gallon so 30mpg should be realistic or at least very close to.
I had hoped to find a copy of something like a "Motor" road test with the figures recorded for performance but this was the best i could manage - hope they give a bit of insight!
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That was a different era Dave, petrol was relatively cheap and expectations were lower. I recall seeing a Ford advertisement back in the 70s that boasted one of its new models (I can’t remember which - but probably an Escort) would achieve 30 MPG. Nowadays manufacturers would be ashamed of 30 MPG, but then it was very good.
Times change.
