This car is 23 years old but every time i drive it makes me feel i am driving a new car, smooth drive - comfort - reliability - exterior & interior design is nice - big trunk, but for performace such as acceleration its not a wow but anyway its a 4
cylinder car so who cares about acceleration, i gave 4 stars for performance because its a little bit weak and sluggish when going into strong uphill.
Not exact matches
I drove the BMW 335i within a day or two of driving our new four -
cylinder 328i Four Seasons
car,
so powertrain comparisons are inevitable.
Morego's mods focus less on power than drivability, magnifying the characteristics of the standard
car,
so it still sounds detectably five -
cylinder, still has a delicious torque surge at 2000rpm, still has the general demeanour of a rugby flanker.
Compared to the Mazda5, the Kia Rondo suffered because it is classified as a passenger
car rather than a truck and
so must meet a higher mpg threshold (which only the four -
cylinder version does) in order for buyers to collect clunkers cash.
I don't recall — in my entire life — an instance where my mom has accelerated to 60 mph at full throttle,
so she hardly notices that the flat six produces some 70 hp more than the four -
cylinder in her
car.
Driving the
car so long while it was overheating turned a $ 1200 timing belt / thermostat job into a $ 3000 +
cylinder head or more.
So, there's a fair amount of pressure on the new
car, particularly when you consider it features a downsized three -
cylinder engine.
So the guy took the
car back to the mechanic and the first go round when they took the intake manifold off to get to
cylinder 1, they might not have put it back on correctly and I feel cold air coming out.
The affected
cars have
so - called «Generation 3» EA288 diesel four -
cylinder engines:
The brake booster and master brake
cylinder on my
car are leaking
so I bought a 2nd hand set from a guy with a doner
car.
The V - 8 engine itself weighs about 55 pounds less than the twelve -
cylinder engine,
so there's less weight hanging off the front axle of the
car, which makes any of the Continental GT V8 models better tools for diving into corners and making time on fast, challenging roads like Ortega Highway.
Being
car enthusiasts, and since some of us remember when pickups were work trucks with three - on - the - tree manuals, we're drawn to that base Canyon with the six - speed stick, a gearbox available only with the 2.5 L four -
cylinder engine, and any other configuration
so long as it doesn't have the longer, 8 - foot box or four - wheel drive.
It sadly doesn't sounds like a full - on race
car though, as it lacks that hard - edged induction scream that make the best highly - strung, naturally aspirated, four -
cylinders sound
so incredible.
Arriving in a weathered six -
cylinder Honda Accord to one of the country's most opulent
car shows would probably have resulted in at least a few people staring with disapproval,
so you should've seen the grin on my face when Mercedes lent this 2017 Mercedes - AMG C63 S Cabriolet to be my chariot.
If its in -
car technology makes Hyundai seem very au courant,
so, too, does the Sonata's all - four -
cylinder engine lineup.
This 2.0 - liter four -
cylinder engine with its twin - scroll turbocharger has been revised for much improved response at low rpm,
so the
car surges away from a stoplight with more authority than before.
KTM's race and road
cars are incredibly similar,
so if the five -
cylinder X-Bow gets the production green light, a road - going version would be nigh on certain.
The Up's compact engine bay means there's no room for a four -
cylinder engine under the bonnet,
so engineers were forced to use the standard
car's 1 - litre three -
cylinder.
Porsche say (of course) that the new models are an improvement over the six
cylinder cars, but the EU has driven them to smaller turbo engines to save the planet, and Porsche Marketing has driven them into four
cylinders to stop the Cayman / Boxster line from stealing 911 sales (why pay
so much when you could get a 911 engined Boxster for
so much less money)?
So here we are a decade later and the Fit is in its third generation and I've just spent a week driving one, this time with a 6 - speed manual, all the better to take full advantage of what the
car's 1.5 - liter four -
cylinder engine provides.
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?
Despite the lighter components, the
car still weighs just over 3,000 pounds,
so some stopping power was added in the form of four - piston, 12 - inch Wilwood disc brakes with race pads in the front, while the rear retained the original 10 1/2» drums all being worked by a manual dual pot master
cylinder.
So after returning from Tasmania, we decided to put three of the fastest production
cars ever made in Australia — including the nation's most powerful ever six -
cylinder, the XR6 Sprint — to the test, to see which is the quickest and most powerful once and for all.
Even
so we do know this: the
car has a new 2.0 - litre, single - turbo four
cylinder engine officially claimed to give «over 280PS» which, according to one engineer actually means at least 300bhp as it stands.
These vibrations become more powerful as engine size and power increase,
so the more powerful engines used in larger
cars generally are more complex designs with more than four
cylinders.
Furthermore, the 2.0 is one of the peppier four -
cylinders out there
so it never feels like an economy
car.
What I dislike about this
car is that the
car is only 4
cylinder so it is not a fast
car.
For the 1 - liter, three -
cylinder turbo petrol unit we tested, Kia's claims involve an average fuel consumption of 5 l / 100 km and we managed to get 6.3 l / 100 km, which is quite good given that we ignored the
car's eco-focused suggestions regarding when to shift and
so on.
Renault doesn't offer a petrol engine with the Koleos,
so your choice is between a 1.6 - litre diesel with 129bhp or the 175bhp 2.0 four -
cylinder diesel fitted to our test
car.
Though Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter says it wasn't always easy pitching an even faster Corvette to GM's notorious bean counters, the final
car has very little compromise — most notably the Aero package means the ZR1 can't be sold in Europe, and also eschews (thankfully) the silly skip - shift feature and
cylinder deactivation,
so customers have to eat the gas guzzler tax on this one.
This is one of the most advanced road -
car engines ever: double Vanos variable camshaft control, individual throttle butterflies for each
cylinder, equal - length stainless - steel exhaust and force - regulated oil supply governed by the most powerful engine - management system BMW has developed — the
so - called MS S60.
The new 8 - series models will use the familiar BMW group large -
car architecture,
so much of the hardware is shared with the 5 - series / 7 - series brigade, which points to a choice of rear - and xDrive all - wheel drive and a variety of six - and eight -
cylinder engines in various states of tune.
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.
The new
car uses the same 395bhp five -
cylinder engine as the recently launched Audi TT RS,
so not only is it 33bhp more than the outgoing RS3 Sportback, it'll outgun its closest rival, the Mercedes - AMG CLA 45, which has 355bhp.
The BMW M140i is
so inherently right as a performance
car — six -
cylinder engine, rear - wheel drive, balanced weight distribution — that you forget it has such workaday origins.
Driving a 650 - hp super
car in Eco mode sounds pretty lame (wait until they hear it was an automatic) but the LT4 is one of the first supercharged engines with
cylinder deactivation
so we gave it try.
The
car has four
cylinders,
so it's not fast but great on gas mileage.
I found ample power in this four -
cylinder version, and though the CVT can run up the power (rubber) band, if you keep the
car in Sport mode it reasonably mimics a stepped automatic
so the motorboating isn't quite
so evident.
Some things, such as a 2.5 - liter four -
cylinder engine and standard touchscreen, put the
car in line with
so many others on the market.
This a species of
cars most easily to associate with the notion of physiotherapy on wheels, everything is there to make the occupants happy, from the serenely comfy seats with massage function, to the
so - called noise cancellation system which eliminates negative engine vibrations — successfully concealing the
cylinder deactivation reverberations in the process.
The
car will be powered by a choice of three
so - called Tigershark 4 -
cylinder engines, which utilize Fiat's Multiair valvetrain technology.
all my ratings were based on the features of the
car... ie it's a 4
cylinder, but as far as four bangers go, excellent performance... and
so on.
Like a traditional system, it's fully hydraulic from the master
cylinder all the way to the calipers
so no one can complain of mushy or laggy brakes with this regen - equipped
car.
Having mostly driven six
cylinder cars, a four
cylinder like Sentra with a small engine feels sluggish at pickup, but well this
car is for my college starting son,
so perfect.
The test
car is only worth mentioning the
so - called handling package including locking differential as well as the three - stage adjustable shock absorbers and will ultimately be the best offer: most
cylinders with the highest torque for the least money.
So I've owned this
car for maybe a week or two since my 06 Nissan Sentra died, it took some getting use to going from a 1.8 L 4
cylinder...
The newly developed three - litre six -
cylinder in - line unit powering the BMW M2 uses state - of - the - art M TwinPower Turbo technology to develop 272 kW / 370 hp at 6,500 rpm and, in
so doing, lays down a marker in the high - performance compact sports
car segment.
Stick to well - maintained
cars that have been tickled to 350bhp or
so and full - throttle use won't feel like pulling the pin from an expensive six -
cylinder grenade.
Now keep in mind, it has an 8
cylinder engine and it eats up a lot of gas
so if you want a
car with good gas mileage, this isn't the one.
As expected, the power bump for the 2.0 liter four -
cylinder turbocharged engine in the new A 45 4MATIC is carried over on the rest of the range,
so all three
cars now develop an extra 21 hp than the previous versions.