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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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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This Lexus Hybrid Drive powertrain features an all-new, ultra-smooth running, 2.5 litre 4-cylinder petrol engine mated to a compact, high-output, water-cooled permanent magnet electric motor.
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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 smaller and lighter four-cylinder gets better mileage than the six-cylinder when the six-cylinder is paired with a manual transmission, according to EPA estimates.
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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.
My test X3 xDrive35i was equipped with a 3.0-liter inline 6-cylinder engine with twin turbochargers, tuned to produce the magic numbers of 300 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque.
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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 2013 Honda Accord also has a plug-in hybrid version, in addition to four- and six-cylinder engines.
Silverado and Sierra will accomplish its new mileage pinnacle with a 5.3L EcoTec3 V-8 relying on direct injection, cylinder deactivation and variable-valve timing to achieve EPA estimates of 16 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on the highway with two-wheel drive, or 16 in the city and 22 on the highway with four-wheel drive.
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Bonhams say that the car's eight-litre, six-cylinder engine with a low gearing ratio allowed "it to creep powerfully through the roughshod jungles of Rajasthan".
Fuel economy ratings at or above 40 mpg on the highway is becoming common among small cars, with midsize models leveraging turbocharged four-cylinder engines to deliver V6-like acceleration with fairly frugal fuel economy.
Four-cylinder models are expected to go on sale next spring.
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It's just hard to score in the luxury market when you refuse to do an eight-cylinder engine, wear undistinguished styling and don't offer a rear-wheel-drive car.
The 2013 Ford Fusion, for instance, has a choice of four-cylinder gas engines getting 33 to 37 mpg on the highway, but will also be available as a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid.
Honda has an almost religious fervor when it comes to not doing an eight-cylinder car.
The car was produced from 1963 to 1966 with a 6-cylinder, 282-horsepower engine.
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Volkswagen has to make sure the four-cylinder engine in the Jetta and Audi A4 doesn't outperform the six-cylinder in the Passat and Audi A6.
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 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.
Toyota recently said it planned to boost production capacity for the 4-cylinder engine at the plant by more than 100, 000 units.
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Capable of shape-shifting from cone to strata to cylinder, they certainly seem otherworldly, but Rosny offers no explanation for their presence.
They contain a battery-powered pump and bladder, allowing the cylinder to control its buoyancy.
Hyundai leaned on 4-cylinder engines and its own high-tensile steel to trim 128 pounds from last year's Sonata.
Plus, using the six-cylinder gas engine is part of a larger strategy to apply the hybrid powertrain to various models, including the 5 Series and 7 Series.
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When Jerrold Zacharias was developing the first atomic clock, working in Building 20, he removed two floors in his lab to make room for a three-story metal cylinder.
Then there's the Slide (pictured above) which relies on interesting physics to support the iPad: a heavy high-friction rubber cylinder is pulled out of its tubular compartment under the metallic slope, and it can be placed anywhere on the slope to support the iPad at any desired angle, up to somewhere around 70 degrees -- you can see it and the others in action in the earlier video.
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It will offer a new four cylinder that is turbocharged to produce 201 horsepower and 229 pounds-feet of torque.
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The 4-cylinder, 5-passenger car consistently gets more than 50 miles to the gallon in combined city and highway driving.
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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