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Spy Shots: Ford Super-Duty’s new 6.7L Scorpion diesel

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 by admin

As is well known by now, Ford and Navistar have parted ways and the Blue Oval is developing diesel engines in-house to replace the PowerStroke lumps still being used. Slated to appear in Ford’s trucks by 2011, the new oil burner code-named Scorpion is a 6.7-liter V8 with a host of innovations, some of them seemingly borrowed from cross-town rival GM.

But the first thing you’ll notice is that mammoth radiator. PickupTrucks.com estimates that the cooler up front is up to 20-percent larger than the one on the 2008 Super Duty, and that one had already been enlarged by 33-percent over its forebear. The extra cooling could be needed for “extreme towing applications”, and if there’s one truck that’s an extreme tower, it’s the F-Series Super Duty.

The Scorpion diesel’s innards will be enhanced with reversed intake and exhaust flow, something found on GM’s Duramax diesel, and lighter aluminum cylinder heads. Nor will the Scorpion sacrifice mpg for its extra oomph: gains of 40 hp and 70 lb-ft will come with three more miles-per-gallon thanks in part to the truck’s new 6-speed tranny that’s debut as we speak on the new F-150.

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Confirmed: BMW working on 4 cylinder turbo, may come to U.S.

Saturday, September 13th, 2008 by admin

Rumors of a new four cylinder engine from BMW have been confirmed by BMW’s North American leader Jim O’Donnell. Questions on whether it will be offered in the United States, though, are still very much in the air. “We can’t really confirm or deny when it is going to come into the US, or if it is going to come into the US, until after the election and the government makes it clear what is going to be the platform that manufacturers have got to work to,” says O’Donnell. It really seems so simple to us. If an automaker has a new engine that offers both good performance and good fuel economy, it should be offered in the U.S. market.

Granted, the last effort to sell four-cylinder Bimmers in the States didn’t go over so well. But BMW’s reputation was earned first by cars like the 2002, which was motivated by a sprightly little four-banger. Considering the fact that BMW owns the MINI brand, the automaker should know better than anyone else that Americans are now willing to spend a good deal of money on small cars with small engines. We’ll gladly support a revival of the tii badge on a lightweight 1 Series platform powered by a nice turbo four.

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Lotus developing efficient two-stroke OMNIVORE engine

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 by admin

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Lotus Engineering has kept on hard at attempt developing new engine technologies too aide the use of replenish&wshyp;able alcohol fuels. It’s newly drafted Exige 270E Tri-Fuel idea contended overly the British establishment knows how to initiate an engine run on a large number of fuels, combined with gasoline, ethanol and methanol. In fact, the 270E Tri-Fuel idea was the a large amount of powerful Exige repeatedly conceived by the Hethel-based establishment and earned its largest electricity output paying synthetic methanol fuel. Lotus has began a new investigation anticipate dubbed the OMNIVORE engine — cleverly signaling the present it serves to run on everything — this uses a single cylinder investing in direct injection and a variable compression ratio in circumstances to maximize fuel and efficiency additonally running on a large number of alcohol fuels. The even greater octane screen of alcohol fuels ought to let the engine to run among bigger compression, thereby giving a greater amount of power, additonally additionally toning itself downhill to run on lower-grade fuels as well. Read the urge release subsequent to the break for a great deal more details.

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