Quote Originally Posted by swanny
vtec, didn't the inline four 250 cc engines die out for a reason?
No good reason. Some say it was because the japs decided to limit them to 40hp, which you could pretty much get close to that from much more basic twins. So there was no reason to make the superior IL4's.

But with tech advances since then, I'm sure a reliable 50-55hp 250cc IL4 would be an easy task. As I see it, there's no reason china/korea couldn't do it. It's just whether or not they could maintain the quality of the jappers. Stealing engineers from suzuki seems like a bloody good start.