Under the Hood: 2.0 liter turbocharged I-4 engine producing 211 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque.
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One morning last month the Sottaks, their nephew and I chartered an ancient Piper Aztec twin-engine plane and flew over the islands at 150 feet.
Even above the sound of the engine I can hear the insistent high-pitched zither of crickets.
The base engine gives good love: 300 hp from turbo I-5 that produces 250 hp and 266 lb-ft of torque.
When I played Gears of War 3, I saw a slick shooter with a responsive engine appropriate to a long-honed blockbuster series.
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Personally, I have my eye on an even smaller jet, the rumored single-engine, four-seat pocket-rocket from Cirrus Design. (If the one engine fails, pull a lever and a parachute will float you and the plane to a soft landing.) One of the two brothers who founded Cirrus told me the Cirrus jet would go 300 knots, or 345 miles per hour.
Rob Peterson and Britta Gross of GM, both integral to the Volt program, dare me to guess when the car switches from battery-only to using the gas engine as a generator, and I totally miss it.
And opposite a particularly Heath Robinson piece of machinery, complete with foot-long levers and dials like the engine room of the Titanic, I spot an old circuit diagram on the wall, mapping out each of Britain's national newspapers.
In the seven or so years that I've been flying, I've put in more than 2, 000 hours at the stick of single-engine piston airplanes, including a Beechcraft Bonanza, two Cessnas and, most recently, a sleek Cirrus SR22 that I've owned for 18 months.
I'm rather looking forward to driving the car with the hot little turbo engine and six-speed manual.
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The check engine light of my 2003 Mazda MPV turned on over 6-months ago, and I never had the time to actually get it checked, even less fixed!
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