It has 621 bhp and 590 foot-pounds of torque from a 6-liter, direct-injection engine.
It boasts a fuel-injection engine made especially for the hot and dusty Indian climate.
The "W12" refers to the 6.3-liter, 500-hp direct-injection engine, with four rows of three cylinders conjoined at the crankshaft.
Its upcoming 2012 Veloster coupe weighs just 2, 584 pounds (400 pounds lighter than a Scion tC and about the same as a Mini hardtop) and will deliver 138 horsepower and get up to 40 miles per gallon with its little 1.6-liter gasoline direct-injection engine.
Thanks to the efficient turbocharged, common-rail, direct fuel-injection diesel engine, the concept car is still very fuel-efficient.
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New gas direct-injection 4-cylinder engine weighs less than earlier model.
The GM engine has electronic fuel injection that automatically adjusts to any acceptable fuel configuration.
Perhaps a risk worth taking, Lord Turner is likely to argue, if it is a one-off injection of fuel into the flat engine of the economy.
The combination of turbocharging and high-pressure direct injection allows Ford to substitute a smaller engine for a bigger one.
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But they are now developing new engines, called fuel injection engines, where the fuel goes directly into the engine and it is about four times more efficient.
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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.
Diesel engine technology took a huge leap with the use of common-rail direct injection (CDI) in the 1990s.
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