Designated N7A, critics remarked on its similarity in both specification and appearance to the Astra GTE's legendary C20XE " Redtop " unit which itself was widely regarded as the top hot hatch engine of the time.
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In 1949, Brown actually went unbeaten and, over the next seven years, he steadily climbed the Lightweight rankings, defeating along the way such notable boxers as Virgil Akins, Isaac Logart and Teddy'Redtop'Davis.
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The Inquirer even, in its 20000th article, refers to itself as " redtop tabloid rags like the INQUIRER ", later in the same article calling itself " cheesy " : determining the irony of this is left as an exercise to the reader.