[rescue] Fun With Statistics

[Sheldon T. Hall]

On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 04:40:29 +0200 Stefan Skoglund <stetson at ebox.tninet.se>
wrote:

>Leslie Connally wrote:
>> He was telling me the new 5 series (?) now had 6 coils in them.. one for
>> each cylinder. We discussed how an old 2002 just needed one, and they
never
>> ever failed anyway.
>
>BMW is late as always...
>
>SAAB did that thing 8 years ago in production cars.
>One coil per plug - it is really a special plug
>with its own coil. Over the connectors is a cover
>- you remove a bunch of screws and lift the cover and
>the connectors releases. NO risk of getting the
>wrong ignition series

Over the years, lots of cars have had one-coil-per-cylinder.  The Citroen
2CV, for example, a high-performance care if there never was one.

-Shel