Sentences with phrase «cylinder car instead»

It was very unfortunate for the truck when global warming gave the large body on frame vehicles a bad name, so the automaker's advertising departments began marketing Sport Utility Vehicles, and everything was great until gas prices skyrocketed after Hurricane Katrina and new car buyers were looking for 4 cylinder cars instead of V6s.

Not exact matches

The team probably won't keep the Japanese sports car's 2.0 - liter horizontally opposed four - cylinder engine, instead replacing it with a four - cylinder from BMW.

Instead, as the car's name implies, it assists with 15 hp and 79 pound - feet of torque, helping the 182 - hp four - cylinder accelerate this 3835 - pound car.

But we said no to temptation and instead ordered a 328i so we could answer the question: can a four - cylinder 3 - series really carry the torch of a car that for so long has been defined by its six - cylinder engine?

An example: you're driving in town and have little need for power, your car will now operate on only four cylinders instead of eight.

The company has confirmed that its 1.8 - litre four - cylinder engine will have more than 205bhp, and that it will be the only car in its class to use a supercharger instead of a turbocharger.

The Outlander, new last year, is based on the platform of the Lancer car and is the only one of the four SUVs powered by a four - cylinder engine instead of a V - 6.

There's a four - cylinder Ingenium unit producing 247bhp and 365Nm of torque, although its CO2 emissions of 173g / km mean it's one for private buyers instead of company car choosers.

Instead of being fitted with the standard Calais engine, a 110 - horsepower four with blocked sinuses, the 442 car gets General Motors» free - breathing new Quad Four High - Output, a 16 - valve, 2.3 - liter four cylinder that belts out 180 horsepower.

If Acura did decide to build a more hotted - up version of the car, I would definitely suggest they use this four - cylinder, front - wheel drive model as a basis instead of the V6 model.

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Instead of the standard car's fuel - sipping 1.5 - liter 4 - cylinder engine, the Fit EV is powered by a 92 - kWh electric motor coupled to a lithium - ion battery pack.

The distance between cylinders has been reduced from 94 to 90 mm, as their height was also lowered by mounting the balance shaft on the side of the crankshaft, instead of under it, so there is a space for a lower mountingof the engine within the car.

Engineers from Chrysler Australia and Simca considered modifying the body of a Chrysler 180 sedan and shortening the drive train so they could place the Australian 6 - cylinder Hemi engines further back in the body but instead decided to lengthen the nose, as Chrysler Australia apparently felt this created a more aggressive and better - looking car.

The smallest cars will get three not four cylinders with a turbocharger; the biggest including pickup trucks get six cylinders with a turbo instead of a V8.

The car retained the frameless hardtop styling of the old Challenger, but had smaller engines (inline - fours instead of the six and eight - cylinder engines of the old Challenger) and was a long way off in performance from its namesake.

«For hydrogen cars to be widely used, there remains a need for a technology that safely stores large quantities of hydrogen at normal pressure and temperature, instead of the pressurized cylinders that are currently in use,» said Mir Mousavi, a co-author of the paper and a professor of chemistry at Iran's Tarbiat Modares University.

It's like lifting up the hood of a muscle car and finding a four - cylinder engine instead of a big - block engine.