Sentences with phrase «diesel car engine»

Now there's a further advance from Subaru: the world's first horizontally opposed diesel car engine.

The following are some facts about diesel car engines, the tailpipe pollution they emit and the «defeat device» software that federal regulators say VW used to circumvent emissions standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California.

Not exact matches

The automaker has claimed that its new diesel engines will hit the European Union's beefed - up emissions targets by improving filters and building in electric generators to start cars.

The three - wheeled car weighs about 1,200 pounds and features a single - cylinder 7 - hp engine that uses either diesel or ethanol and networked batteries to drive two electric motors, giving it the equivalent of 16 hp and a max speed of about 70 mph.

LEIPZIG / FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb 27 - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move that could accelerate a shift away from the combustion engine and force manufacturers to pay to improve exhaust systems.

«After years of claiming the OPEL business was critical to the company's global platform strategy in small cars and diesel engines (while suffering billions on losses), the company surprised the market with its decision to completely exit,» wrote Jonas.

Today I was driving my GASOLINE powered car around a city with a lot of other GASOLINE powered cars, I saw some trucks and buses driving around with DIESEL engines, and got stopped at a level crossing while a train, pulled by 2 DIESEL locomotives went by.

The use of petrol and diesel engines to power cars will also need to be «much less dominant» and replaced with electric power and biofuels, a policy meeting in the House of Commons heard.

It added: «These results challenge the existing paradigm that diesel cars are associated, in general, with far higher PM emission rates, reflecting the effectiveness» of engine add - ons like DPFs to stem pollution.

If you take into account the energy used to produce the electricity, and compare it with a well - to - wheel analysis of the most efficient diesel - engine cars available today, the difference is already fairly small, says Kintner - Meyer.

But the E320 is the vanguard of a new wave of diesel cars, SUVs and pickups that release far fewer air pollutants without compromising the engine's traditionally excellent fuel economy.

The conversion technology is well established (the Germans used it during World War II), and liquid coal can power conventional diesel cars and trucks as well as jet engines and ships.

If you usually use your car for long stretches on the highway, an efficient gas engine — or better yet, modern diesel engine — may be even more eco-friendly than the hybrid.

For example, European Union standards favoring fuel - efficient diesel cars over gasoline cars may lead to more warming, because diesel engines release 40 to 250 times as much soot as gasoline engines.

A near - empty fillup of our GTI was often a $ 65 ($ 73) affair, helping explain why a large number of Europeans opts to purchase cars with small, fuel - efficient diesel engines.

The diesel was also stout coming off corners, where the luxury of 300 lb - ft of torque allowed me to out - drag more powerful cars, at least until their engines were fully wound up.

Powering the fourth - gen car will be a selection of petrol engines or a CDTi diesel engine.

However, both of these cars offer larger, more powerful 3.0 - liter six - cylinder diesel engines and do not match the E250 BlueTec in terms of fuel efficiency.

Car: BMW 3 series 2011 Efficient Dynamics Engine: 2.0 L diesel Any behaviors: none car runs smoothly, tested it last night on motorway and had no warninCar: BMW 3 series 2011 Efficient Dynamics Engine: 2.0 L diesel Any behaviors: none car runs smoothly, tested it last night on motorway and had no warnincar runs smoothly, tested it last night on motorway and had no warnings.

The diesel Bluetec engine does go a long way in making this car feel special, though, and it improves fuel economy tremendously.

Body roll is pretty well contained and feels well matched with the grip afforded by the tyres, but the 320d does that nodding - dog trick that many diesels are afflicted with: the weight of the engine seems to gradually upset the damping until the front and rear ends seem to get out of phase with each other and the car feels a bit like an unbalanced dumb - bell.

I believe these engines use a paper filter which you insert in to a housing (I've only experienced the Peugeot 1.9 diesel engine on a van, so the car variant may be different)- you may want to make sure that the housing has been put back together correctly.

Since GM partnered with BMW and the former DaimlerChrysler to develop Two - Mode for front -, rear -, and four - wheel - drive applications with gasoline and diesel engines, you'll see it in more cars, pickups, SUVs, and crossover applications.

So far, the company hasn't said whether this engine will be offered in the U.S. Mazda 6, only that the diesel will be sold here in some car.

A3 / B3 Stable, stay - in - grade oil intended for use in high performance gasoline engines and car & light van diesel engines and / or for extended drain intervals where specified by the engine manufacturer, and / or for year - round use of low viscosity oils, and / or for severe operating conditions as defined by the engine manufacturer.

I told this to my mechanic and he told me that my car and diesel engines don't have Idle Air Control Valve.

You may have more than one pump and / or filter, as some diesel cars have a low - pressure pump in the tank and a high - pressure one near the engine.

Since then we have had 6 cars with diesel engines and only one of them was not a VW engine.

Next in line to further decrease CO2 form cars come downsized turbo GDI (gas direct injection) engines and they emit much more ultrafine particles and NOX than regular natural aspirated engines with PFI (port fuel injection) and even more than some Euro6 diesels with particle filter.

With new prototype regulations arriving next year, there wasn't much buzz in the prototype classes other than Mazda's decision to jettison the uncompetitive diesel that hamstrung its cars for the past two seasons in favor of a conventional gasoline - powered engine.

When I was driving the Acadia Denali in the city, I noticed every loud diesel engine, every car horn and every construction sound.

The diesel engines are all four - cylinder turbo units, with every car in the range being available with all - wheel drive as an option.

As (usually bigger) diesel engines get outlawed by EU regs, and electric engines and turbos improve, the average UK car engine size is going to be around 1.5 litres by 2025.

The diesel engine tested here doesn't feel as keen as its torque figure suggests, but as a cheap to run company car choice it's hard to fault, with little fuss at motorway speeds and just enough grunt to make the odd country lane interesting.

How It Drives Luxury - car owners don't want to hear typical diesel engine clatter, feel harsh vibrations through the seat and steering wheel, or poke along the road like there's a mouse turning a wheel under the hood.

Starting in 1996, we got the first two cars with diesel engines The cars were an A-3 Audi, and an A-6 Audi, both cars had the 1.9 TDI from VW.

And, from inside the car at least, the diesel is almost as quiet as the gas engine.

That rating was achieved with the car's Eco mode engaged, which activates an automatic stop / start feature on the 2.0 - liter turbo - diesel engine.

The affected cars have so - called «Generation 3» EA288 diesel four - cylinder engines:

The car received various visual changes, additional equipment and safety technology, and a more efficient diesel engine.

Diesels are all based on the 2.0 - litre CDTI engine, and can be had in 118bhp / 236 lb ft, 138bhp / 236 lb ft, and 161bhp / 273 lb ft variants, the former two states of tune emitting a company car tax - friendly 99g / km of CO2 and averaging 76.3 mpg on the combined cycle.

Below our trio sit the big - engined diesel variants of the same cars, so smug in their claims that «in the real world» they're just as quick, while offering lower CO2 and fuel consumption.

The TDI engine, which is so abstemious with fuel you'd think diesel was eight dollars a gallon (like it is in Europe), adds a truly European quality to what was once an actual European car.

The R18 TDI is a 3.7 litre V6 530 - ish HP diesel engine used in Audi's Le Mans car that won 16 of 33 races it took part in.

Prices for the Ateca start at an incredibly low # 18,675, but it doesn't take long before it becomes an over # 30,000 car when you start adding four - wheel drive, a diesel engine and an auto gearbox.

The Qashqai would likely adopt a different name for our market and different powertrains than the European - market car's gasoline and diesel engines ranging from 1.2 to 1.6 liters.

Other notable factors are a lower proportion of diesel - powered engines across the Australian car and LCV fleet than in Europe, fewer government incentives for lower - emissions vehicles and relatively low fuel prices compared with Europe.

If you own one of these cars, you can still have VW repurchase your car under the terms of the automaker's settlement regarding the four - cylinder diesel engines.

and it wouldn't have been bad had they just offered this car with a more powerful engine or V8, but no, instead anemic derivative engines and a diesel that's absolute crap, cause they're right, for the price of this car optioned you can get a much better BMW, Audi or MB.

This is the natural replacement for the diesel engine, which I figure should be on its deathbed thanks to Volkswagen Group's Dieselgate and the prospect for hydrogen fuel cell trucks, electrified cars, and this sort of engine, as well as Mazda's Skyactive - X Compression four - banger.