Clive ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

Direct Injection's nothing new, Clive... Hell, even Monte(don't)goes
use direct injection.

The only direct injection passenger type vehicle I can find from 10
years ago is the Transit van. I know direct injection was always the
norm for diesels of all sizes as it makes for better economy, but cars
were idi's to keep down the noise, but suffered from worse fuel economy.

Perkins Prima in the Montego (and Maestro?) was DI.