bluejay

Yeah, the entire Ford T-Drive project was one of those things where you have to wonder if anyone who could see off the bat why this was a bad idea either bothered to speak up or did speak up and was ignored.  The design shortcomings are so obvious that I can't believe they ever actually pursued this idea.

BTW: IIRC, the V16 in the Cizeta used a crank, block, and head of Cizeta's design, but the other internal bits were taken from the Jalpa's V8 (though I believe that stroke was shortened).  Don't quote me on that, though, as it's been a long time since I looked into it.

Read the Wikipedia article on the V16T, it says the heads were taken from the Urraco V8, which as far as I know is different from the one in the Jalpa. Another article says that it had 8 camshafts, so I assume they were taken from the Urraco as well. I’ve yet to find any mention of the Jalpa, unless, that is, the Urraco and Jalpa did indeed have the same engine.

Unrelated, but the V16T’s taillights look awfully like the ones on the Alpine A610. I wonder if they are the same. 

Admittedly there was a time period when Ford fell prey to the GM-style engineering-by-committee that always ended poorly. Unlike GM, however, Ford learned that lesson quite swiftly.