Sentences with phrase «modular engine architectures»

By adopting modular engine architectures car - makers can reduce development costs and, to put it crudely, the 2.9 - litre Porsche V6 is effectively the company's new 4.0 - litre V8 minus two cylinders.

Fröhlich also talks about three - cylinder engines and how BMW must remain flexible to its customers» demands with the new modular engine architecture.

Not exact matches

This architecture is modular and fully scalable in terms of powertrain, able to accommodate internal combustion engine, plug - in hybrid or pure electric powertrains.

The Golf's modular chassis architecture, which will spread to other VW models, permits the consecutive assembly of climate - change - denying Golfs fitted with combustion engines and eco-models riding along the line on yoga mats while using an app to chart the melting of glaciers.

The 1010 also offers increased functionality over other single electric motor hybrid systems and the modular design satisfies a number of sportscar driveline architectures including front engine longitudinal powertrain layouts.

This is the first Volkswagen Group vehicle built on the VW Group (Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, VW) modular standard architecture, or Modularer Standard - Baukasten, here meaning front - engine, rear - or all - wheel - drive layout.

Sharing their modular architecture with MINI engines, the X1 powerplants sit across the engine bay for a shorter nose than the new X1's predecessor.

Wards praised the modular architecture and engine performance stating ``... it is hard to improve on the previous inline - 6 TwinPower Turbo but this new engine provides more power and more torque allowing the 340i xDrive to sprint from 0 - 60 mph in just 4.6 seconds while some of our editors approached 27 mpg during their testing» said Drew Winter WardsAuto content Director.

In late 2011, Mercedes launched the third generation of the A-Class (W 176), which ditched the sandwich architecture and adopted a classic modular platform with transverse mounted engines and front - wheel drive: the MFA platform, that also underpins the next - generation A-Class in a heavily updated variant..

The modular platform architecture follows the same theory as the much talked about MQB underpinnings of traverse - engine - mounted models like the Golf, but applies it to longitudinal, front - engined and all - wheel drive models.

Tendermint is developing a new modular architecture for Blockchain development, with an open - source Blockchain engine at the core that can power any ledger application; whether it be based on Bitcoin's UTXO, the Ethereum virtual machine, or entirely novel designs.