Sentences with phrase «little twin engine»

You won't expect it, because you prepared for the long haul,» she writes, «but then all of the sudden, midst the puffy clouds and blue skies, your little twin engine Entreprenairplane will sputter, the needle on the gas gauge unexpectedly plummeting to zero, and you will have only one choice... land your plane on the wild, abandoned air strip called Bank Balance: Fourteen Dollars.»

Not exact matches

This Macan Turbo, like the M3, uses a twin - turbocharged six - cylinder engine, though it's 3.6 litres in size and a little down on power, with 394bhp, albeit an identical 406 lb ft torque figure.

Manhart offers a total of four different engine - tuning options, with each one pushing the standard 552bhp 4.4 - litre twin - turbo V8 a little bit harder.

Many will feel little need to bother with the upper models, though — even the entry - level Carrera can dispatch 0 - 62mph in just 4.6 seconds thanks to a 365bhp, twin - turbocharged, flat - six engine.

By getting the engine management system to clamp the wastegate down just a little longer on the twin turbos, the GT V8 S now hits a peak of 521 hp at 6,000 rpm and shovels out torque of 502 lb - ft all the way from 1,700 to 5,000 rpm.

The competition surrounding fast SUVs is definitely accelerating, which prompted Porsche to add a little more juice to the 4.8 - liter, twin - turbo V - 8 petrol engine sitting under the Cayenne's bonnet.

Peugeots traditionally have been a little, well, different from other cars; but the Oxia, unveiled at the recent Paris Automobile Salon, is different and then some.A two - seat coupe powered by a 680 - horsepower, twin - turbocharged engine, Oxia is said to be capable of going 210 mph flat - out and booming through a kilometer -LRB-.62 mile) in less than 20 seconds — from a standing start.Rumored to be a racing prototype, Oxia uses a heavily breathed - on version of the familiar Peugeot - Renault - Volvo V - 6 engine.

Propelling the new Ford Ka + small car is a 1.2 - liter Duratec gasoline engine with twin - independent variable camshaft timing, and little else.

Click past the jump to read a little about the production Skoda Octavia and to see more videos of the twin - engine Skoda

Weighing a considerable 2,230 kg unladen, the BMW X5 40e might feel a little underpowered if its 2.0 - litre, twin - turbocharged engine was left to cope unaided.

The 2.0 - liter turbo is a surprisingly good little engine for the big CT6, but the 3.0 - liter twin - turbocharged V - 6 boasts the best passing power.

This was disappointing but not all that surprising, as tuning a twin turbocharged engine for larger numbers up top usually means you will lose a little down low.

Thanks to twin turbos, this little diesel engine generates 200 horsepower and 369 pound - feet of torque.

Customers looking for a little more of an adrenaline jump might bump up to the John Cooper Works ALL4 model ($ 38,500), harnessing a more muscular version of the 1.6 - litre Twin Scroll Turbo inline - four engine, making 208 hp and 192 lb / ft of torque.