On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 05:04:02 -0700, "Michael Pardee"
<michaeltnull@cybertrails.com> wrote:
>"Joseph Wind" <jpg@gif.com> wrote in message
>news:LFIFd.17110$F97.14913@trnddc06...
>> Is that the engine that runs on only 2 cylinders when the RPMs are
>> constant,
>> like in highway speeds? I read that a while back, seemed interesting,
>> actually it was printed in a Japanese auto magazine that a friend
>> translated
>> to me. Sort of the 4-6-8 engine developed by GM in the 70s, or was that
>> the
>> 8-6-4? But I digressed.
>>
>I remember that (although IIRC it was a 4-8 or 8-4). I don't know if it ever
>made it into production, though. In any event it faded away, and I never
>knew why.

8-6-4, Cadillac, died an ignominious death, very crude control
electronics.

I think the concept has been revived and implemented by M-B, if not
others.