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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Nissan offers a four-cylinder and a six-cylinder engine in the new Altima.
The 2014 Jeep Cherokee will also be up to 45 percent more fuel efficient when equipped with a standard four-cylinder engine, which puts out 184 horsepower.
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The car has a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine with a 6-speed automatic transmission and front-wheel drive.
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.
The 328d will have a four-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine that puts out 180 horsepower.
Coming in three trim levels, all models come powered by a peppy 180-horsepower 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine that drives the front wheels via a six-speed automatic transmission.
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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Essentially leveraged as a form of high-tech turbocharging, here a small electric motor gives a modest fuel-free power boost to a direct-fuel-injected 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
The car uses a 1.8-liter, 98-horsepower four-cylinder gasoline engine with an 80 hp (60 kW) electric motor charged on a Ni-MH battery.
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The Jetta TDI has a 2.0-liter four-cylinder turbodiesel engine that operates efficiently enough not to require the new urea-injection technology that many larger, heavier diesels do in order to comply with exhaust emissions standards.
Which is why the base Jaguar XF now comes powered by a seemingly modest 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine.
The Electric Defender test vehicles swap the 2.2-liter, four-cylinder diesel engine and six-speed manual gearbox of the regular Defender 110 for a 70-kilowatt electric motor that puts out the equivalent of 94 horsepower and 243 foot-pounds of torque.
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The 1.4-liter four-cylinder turbo in the Dodge Dart generates 160 hp, the same as a bigger, 2.0-liter engine without a turbo.
The good news is that Ford will soon offer an engine worthy of the chassis, a 250-hp turbocharged four-cylinder in a performance variant called the ST.
Vehicles with fuel-saving six-speed transmissions or cylinder deactivation systems let a big V8 engine run on just four cylinders on the highway.
Next year Ford will offer a new Focus compact car in Europe, with a one-litre, three-cylinder engine that performs as well as the 1.6 litre, four-cylinder engine it replaces, yet uses about 20% less fuel.
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