Nissan offers a four-cylinder and a six-cylinder engine in the new Altima.
Ford thinks the time is right to bring a three-cylinder to the U.S. market, starting in 2013 with a three-cylinder version of the facelifted 2014 Ford Fiesta.
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You can buy the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK with either a 4- or a 6-cylinder engine.
The company announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show that the U.S. version of its Mazda 6 midsize sedan, which got a major redesign for the 2014 model year, will offer a new four-cylinder diesel engine, in addition to a conventional four-cylinder gasoline engine.
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Today Chery makes its own engines--20 different ones, ranging from a tiny 0.8-liter up to a 6-cylinder now undergoing testing--with the help of avl, an Austrian engineering firm.
The few hybrids BMW has introduced previously, such as the ActiveHybrid 7 and ActiveHybrid X6, which use an eight-cylinder gasoline engine instead of a six-cylinder, have not sold well.
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Located within an austere former meatpacking store, the restaurant has a rough-hewn chic interior and a dramatic cylinder-shaped aquarium in the centre that doubles as a raw bar, with stools around its diameter.
The ELR will run on an electric propulsion system made of a T-shaped lithium ion battery, an electric drive unit and a four-cylinder engine generator.
Bentley is eager to give it to them in both old-school and nouveau-riche style: Along with a 12-cylinder engine that delivers 610 horsepower, the concept SUV sports diamond-quilted leather seats, handcrafted wood, leather and gunmetal trim, and built-in iPads for each passenger.
The Gran Turismo should get about what a standard 3-series gets: up to 36 mpg on the highway with a manual transmission and a four-cylinder engine and 33 mpg on the highway with the six cylinder motor and automatic transmission.
For the Ford F-150, the most popular vehicle on American roads, they take out the inevitable V-8, and replace it with a four-cylinder engine, an average of 22-kilowatt-hour battery packs, and two 60-kilowatt electric motors.
The 328d will have a four-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine that puts out 180 horsepower.
The last car BMW sold in the United States with a four-cylinder was the 1999 318ti hatchback.
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The car was produced from 1963 to 1966 with a 6-cylinder, 282-horsepower engine.
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In this case it's a four-cylinder BMW-sourced engine providing that extra range, exhaust peeking out just behind the front-left wheel.
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Another time, an engineer was developing a prototype for a six-cylinder engine.
Heavily automated, it can build a four-cylinder engine in less than the 1.82 worker hours it takes at Toyota's best engine factory in West Virginia.
Still, total fuel costs for driving a diesel Passat on a long highway trip are about 20% less than driving a four-cylinder gasoline Passat, rated at 31 mpg highway.
We were admittedly skeptical when we learned that, for the 2013 model year, Jaguar would be making a four-cylinder engine standard in its otherwise large and posh XF sports sedan.
The engine had 25 horsepower and a three-cylinder engine.
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Heavily automated, it can build a four-cylinder engine in less than the 1.82 worker hours it takes at Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people )'s best engine factory in West Virginia.
One sign that the world is improving is that hybrid vehicles such as the Escape don't feel like a chore, or as if you're driving them because you would feel more guilty if you bought a 12-cylinder Mercedes from DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ).
Still to come this fall is the eye-catching 2013 Fusion, featuring a broad choice of powertrains: three four-cylinder engines, a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid.
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The car has a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine with a 6-speed automatic transmission and front-wheel drive.
By eliminating the bulky V6-engine option in favor of a smaller, 4-cylinder turbocharged engine, Hyundai could design the car on a smaller, lighter steel frame.
The most efficient Cruze model, the Eco, uses a 138-horsepower, turbocharged, four-cylinder engine and a manual, six-speed transmission to achieve an EPA rating of 28 mpg city, 42 highway.
He tracked down a researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Germany who had just mapped the 3-D structure of the proteasome, which was shaped like a six-ringed cylinder.
Several different engines can be dropped in, like a turbo--necessary for Saab's peppy image--or a fuel-efficient four-cylinder for the Malibu.
But industry buzz is around the success of a turbocharged, six-cylinder Ford engine that uses a fifth less fuel than older, larger V8 engines of similar power.
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