Posted on 02/22/2024 4:01:07 AM PST by Red Badger
Nope.
Car and Driver needs to give up the woke narrative, period.
Engines WIIL prematurely wear out if manufacturers bolt on a turbo-science!
All this BS cause a cult of loons believe CO2 is a poison and danger at 400 parts per 1,000,000 of our atmosphere (hint-that’s a miniscule part of the atmosphere)
Well, at least it ain’t an EV.....................yet..................
My truck has a pushrod iron block V6 with a manual tranny. I’m sure the power figures are poor by today’s standards, but it’s 30 years old with 220k miles and still runs great.
We have a 2002 Dodge Ram, V6 with 106k miles. Still runs great...............
Puh-leeze...
What is the price for a Cummins diesel?
Get a load of the pricing on the packages for every trim level.
And I’ll bet they’re gonna have problems with that engine...
I like my hemi. Have a 2007 Charger with the hemi, 200,000 miles and running great. Have a 2011 Ram with hemi, 110,000 miles and running good.
This guy writes like a hyperactive 12 yr old. Horsepower! Horsepower! Horsepower! Turbo! Turbo! Turbo!
No mention of Fords foray into putting turbo sixes into work trucks. Turbos are race equipment. They are not magic. They work by making the engine work harder. For trucks they make more sense in diesel. Hope what ever they use to keep the cam in sync with the crank is ultra hardened…
Twin turbos? Good luck.
“And for those who mourn the V-8 rumble, we’d note that the Hemi engaged its cylinder deactivation system whenever it could, and in that mode it sounded like a goat that fell down a well.”
Now that’s something that has been going on for a while and fortunately, smart owners have been circumventing MDS and AFM for a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAbYwHiXVHk
https://blog.1aauto.com/what-is-mds-how-do-i-disable-it-on-my-hemi-engine/
Priceless....................
“My truck has a pushrod iron block V6 with a manual tranny. I’m sure the power figures are poor by today’s standards, “
I’m very satisfied with the transportation provided by my 2009 4-cylinder Camry.
I dunno. I’ve had the dual-turbo 3.5l Ford engine for about three years now (I’m not shy about letting it “air out” from time to time) and it’s held up remarkably well. No discernible loss of power, no engine noises. I’d still rather have the V-8, every single time - seriously, could you imagine all the engineering they put into a v-6 put towards a solid small-block v-8?
Why, yes, yes, I can!
(shudder)
1. Number of cylinders is mostly just a number today. The higher the cylinder count, the higher the $cost.
2. Todays Overhead cam and variable valve timing (VVT) engines add height to vertically aligned engines. Added height raises the hood and detracts from visibility. V-aligned engines allow for lower hoods and better visibility.
Heh, same response I got when I asked myself that very question.
You wanna see something “fun”? Look on YouTube, PriiuSRT8. And enjoy.
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