The novelty in the line - up is a four - wheel - drive model with the 1.6 - litre
petrol turbo engine and a CVT gearbox.
The 300PS Ingenium
petrol turbo engine powers E-PACE from 0 - 60mph in just 5.9 seconds (6.4 seconds for the 0 - 100 km / h sprint) before reaching an electronically - limited top speed of 243km / h.
Under the bonnet sits a 2.0 litre
petrol turbo engine which is good for 311 bhp and sends its power to the back wheels.
City Car first arrived, so it's time for a bit of cosmetic titivation, some new equipment and a new 89bhp
petrol turbo engine -LSB-...]
Buy the 900cc TCe version with the # 250 ECO pack (which brings longer gear ratios and low - rolling - resistance tyres), and its three - cylinder
petrol turbo engine should return 62.8 mpg.
Under the bonnet, the vehicle features a bi-fuel 1.4 TJet 120 HP
petrol turbo engine.
With a subtly beefed up exterior appearance and a 247bhp 1.8 - litre TSI
petrol turbo engine, it helps explore the Passat's sporty side and create a spiritual successor to the rare Passat R36.
«3 - litre to 4 - litre» with the M3's 4 - litre V8, the «2.5 to 3 - litre» with its direct - injection twin - turbo fitted across much of the range (including the new 1 - Series M Coupe), the «1.8 - litre to 2.0 - litre» category with its 2 - litre twin - turbodiesel that powers the 123d and X1 and the «1.4 to 1.8 - litre» category, with its 1.6 - litre four - cylinder
petrol turbo engine which it co-developed with PSA Peugeot Citroen, with whom it shared the award.
Not exact matches
The new TS050 Hybrid is more evolution than revolution, still in the 8MJ hybrid subclass (the maximum allowed in the current LMP1 regs) and with a 2.4 litre V6
turbo petrol engine.
It teams the 302bhp / 295 lb ft twin -
turbo, 3.0 - litre straight - six
petrol engine with a small, supplementary electric motor housed in its eight - speed ZF automatic gearbox.
That
engine, a 1.3 - litre four - pot, will be accompanied by 1.0 - litre, three - cylinder ECOTEC Direct Injection
Turbo petrol engine available in 89bhp and 113bhp guises.
Living in a world obsessed with downsizing both the
petrol -
engined models have smaller capacities than suggested by their model names, the 630i utilising the 2 - litre four - cylinder TwinPower
turbo unit that's used across the range while the 640i's 3 - litre also uses a single twin - scroll
turbo to develop its 335bhp.
Although you might assume the GTS would sit at the top of Porsche's small SUV tree, it actually sits between the regular 3.0 - litre
petrol engined, twin -
turbo S and the full - fat 3.6 - litre Turbo in the Macan range, both in terms of price and p
turbo S and the full - fat 3.6 - litre
Turbo in the Macan range, both in terms of price and p
Turbo in the Macan range, both in terms of price and power.
Engines are 1.6 or 2 - litre turbodiesels, which will dominate the UK market, and
turbo petrols of 1.2 and 1.4 litres.
Yes, I believe that it has twin
turbo V6 and SH - AWD system combining
petrol engine with 3 electric motors.
Performance from the 2 - litre
turbo petrol engine is strong, but not mind - boggling.
At just over # 64,539 is the
petrol -
engined twin -
turbo V6 Cayenne S. It's # 12k less than the GTS that it shares an
engine with, but the more expensive model has a few extra horsepower and is by far the sharper more involving machine.
The point you have missed I think is that relatively few Japanese
petrol engines have
turbos, so more capacity is needed for more power / torque.
From then on there were the also the 0.9, 1.0, 1.2 lt
turbo engines by most carmakers but since the emissions tests are now going to be based on real life conditions and not lab conditions, even those displacements apart from the diesel ones will prove to pollute more than what is claimed and as such, especially in the non-
turbo small
petrol engines the only way to meet the emissions is to upsize in order also to maintain and improve performance.
Most of the
engines offered are fashionably downsized: two
turbo petrol units (three cylinders / 1.2 litres / 128bhp and four cylinders / 1.6 litres / 163bhp) and two four - cylinder turbodiesels (1.6 litres / 99 or 118bhp and 2.0 litres / 148 or 177bhp).
That's far from an issue in this wallet - friendly eco version, but should Hyundai choose to transplant a more interesting
engine into the i30's slickly - styled front - end (such as the 184bhp 1.6
turbo petrol due in the Veloster coupe), then the chassis will need extra verve to keep up.
Downsizing was first introduced with VAG and Peugeot 1.4 lt
turbo engines which replaced the 1.6, 1.8 and in some cases the 2.0 lt
petrol engines, with less emissions and more power and torque, something that they had to do in order to compete also with the smaller diesel
engines.
Launching with a suite of four
turbo petrol and
turbo diesel
engines, the new Alfa Romeo Giulia is finally adding an Italian option to the compact executive market, previously dominated by the big German manufacturers and occasionally infiltrated by Jaguar and the Japanese pair Lexus and Infiniti.
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Engine and transmission - Neither 1.2
turbo petrol nor the 1.8 hybrid are fire - breathers, but both are very refined and easy - going.
Nissan says that the Juke's 1.6 - litre
turbo petrol engine has been tweaked too, although it remains coy about exactly how much by — insiders were hinting at something around the 210bhp mark.
Another thing worth consideration, mostly for modern diesel cars (but also modern,
turbo charged
petrol cars) fitted with Duel Mass Flywheel, is that pressing the clutch while starting the
engine reduces the pressure on the wheel which should make it last longer.
The 2017 Panamera 4S Diesel, like the
petrol - powered
Turbo, features a 4.0 - liter V - 8
engine with two turbochargers mounted within the Vee.
To that extent the 1.6 CDTi
engine with 134bhp and 236 lb ft seems like the better option — if you're relying on low down torque in the
petrol then you might as well have the
turbo diesel which has even more low down torque and actually revs as far as you want to rev the
petrol.
In a sign of the times, the entry - level 630i model will get a 2 - litre four - cylinder
turbo petrol engine, rather than the straight - six those numbers have traditionally denoted.
Porsche hasn't confirmed which oil burner might find their way into the front of the big SUV but, as the SUV's
petrol engines are shared with current Panamera, the saloon's 4 - litre twin -
turbo V8 is the most likely candidate.
Both
petrol turbo charged
engines are new for the Panamera, designed and developed in house by Porsche.
Engine and gearbox > Diesel
engines feature heavily, with current options including two, 2.0 - litre
turbo diesels, a 3.0 - litre
turbo diesel and a sole 2.0 - litre
turbo petrol option.
The most powerful
petrol, the «PureTech 110»
engine with 108bhp, initially pulls well once it's past a touch of low - speed
turbo lag.
The
engine gets a fair bit of tuning, courtesy of Mariani - the 1.4 - litre
turbo petrol unit is upped to 217bhp, a 64bhp hike.
A 552bhp / 516 lb ft 4 - litre twin -
turbo V8
petrol engine — as seen in the Audi RS6 and RS7 — is mated to a 110kW / 295 lb ft electric motor, which is powered by a rear - mounted lithium - ion battery.
Vauxhall has revealed images of its new full - sized convertible, as well as details on its new 1.6 - litre
turbo petrol engine.
Spiking our interest most is the S8, which gets a 513bhp 4 - litre twin -
turbo V8
petrol engine and quattro all - wheel drive, endowing it with a faintly ludicrous four second 0 - 60 time, though the top speed is inevitably limited to 155mph.
Your only
engine choice is a 1.2 - litre
turbo petrol mated to a six - speed manual gearbox, and prices start at # 15,295 for a three - door.
Another surprise is that the production version of the Urus will use an
engine from within the VW Group and although the final drivetrain configuration has yet to be decided, the
engine of choice is a twin -
turbo,
petrol V8 pumping out at least 600bhp.
At the other end of the scale, Renault's new Clio GT Line combines RS Clio 200 looks with a 118bhp 1.2 - litre
turbo petrol engine.
The new Panamera will initially be available with three
engines consisting of two Porsche designed and developed turbocharged
petrol engines — a 2.9 - litre V6 and a 4.0 - litre V8 — and an Audi sourced 4.0 - litre V8 twin -
turbo diesel.
Vauxhall updates its Insignia range with new
turbo petrol engines and Cascada inspired styling tweaks
A 129bhp electric motor drives the front axle, while a 228bhp three - cylinder 1.5 - litre
turbo petrol engine powers the rear wheels.
A feature of both the
petrol and the V8 twin -
turbo diesel
engine is the positioning of the turbochargers within the centre V of the
engine, between opposing banks of cylinders to improve throttle response, torque delivery and reduce emissions.
On the
petrol side, we can expect the 2011 Cayenne S to come with the Panamera's 4.8 - litre V8
engine that develops 400 hp while the top - of - the - line Cayenne
Turbo should be powered by the 4.8 - litre biturbo V8
engine from the Panamera
Turbo that delivers 500 hp.
Driving its front wheels is a 2 - litre TSI turbocharged
petrol engine with 207bhp and 207 lb ft of torque, making it four times more powerful than the original 1.3 - litre GSR and also 10bhp healthier than the existing Beetle
Turbo, the standard version of which will now gain this newer tune of
engine.
Both the
petrol engines use twin - scroll
turbos that work in unison, while the V8 diesel's
turbos (a Euro6 compliant version of the same
engine found in the Cayenne S Diesel) are sequential, with the second
turbo only active at
engine speeds above 2700rpm.
There's a 161bhp, 2.0 - litre turbodiesel with manual or automatic transmission, the same
engine matched to a rear - wheel electric motor and a robotised paddleshift auto to create the DS5 Hybrid4 (200bhp in total, 99g / km), and two 1.6 - litre
turbo petrol engines of 153 (auto - only) and 197bhp.
GM couldn't provide us with a British - spec 2 - litre
turbo petrol engine for comparison purposes - only the more powerful 200bhp version was available to drive (which won't come here until at least after the VXR has gone on sale, to «prevent confusion»).
The
petrol offering, the E250 CGI, has 1.8 litres, a
turbo, direct injection and 201bhp, and as this is a «BlueEfficiency»
engine it's super-frugal too.