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.
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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The four-cylinder gasoline engine in the new Toyota Corolla is about as efficient as it gets, producing 130hp and 41 highway miles per gallon.
The four-cylinder gasoline engine in the new Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) Corolla is about as efficient as it gets, producing 130hp and 41 highway miles per gallon.
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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 six-cylinder diesel engine guns into life, shattering the silence across Graham Hewitt's orchard near Stonebridge.
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.
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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At 184 horsepower, the base, four-cylinder engine is slightly less powerful than the 2001 Cherokee's base V6, but it's much more efficient.
Love lives in the heart, and the heart of the TT RS is the 2.5-liter turbocharged five cylinder engine that beats in the engine compartment over the front wheels.
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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.
Farley said the 1.0-liter, turbocharged three-cylinder engine has been in the works since before he joined Ford from Toyota in late 2007.
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When powered by gasoline, the C-MAX Energi uses the all-new 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder engine - powerful and fuel efficient and among the most advanced non-turbocharged four-cylinder powertrains Ford has ever offered.
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The car itself is based primarily on the MINI Cooper S, with similar front and rear styling and the l.6-liter four-cylinder turbo engine that debuted in the 2011 MINI S. (The engine gets 181 hp and up to 192 lb-ft of torque, with a 0-to-60 mph sprint of 6.6 seconds.) Fuel economy ratings are 35 mpg on the highway and 27 mpg in the city under the manual transmission variant.
It is battery-driven and can be recharged from the mains or by an on-board three-cylinder engine that never directly drives the wheels.
We like the styling, the comfort and the uniqueness of the turbocharged five-cylinder engine.
So engineers made upscale features like charcoal-black leather seats and chrome wheels available even with the smallest four-cylinder engine.
When BMW redesigned its iconic M5 performance sedan in 2012, it replaced the prior generation's ten-cylinder engine with a smaller, turbocharged V-8, making the engine 25% more efficient and boosting mileage to 16 mpg from 13 combined city and highway driving.
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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Nissan offers a four-cylinder and a six-cylinder engine in the new Altima.
The 2.5-liter inline 4-cylinder gas engine and permanent magnet AC synchronous electric motor in the MKZ deliver 191 net horsepower, a modest amount of power for a 3, 752 lb vehicle.
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".
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.
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.
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 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.
The 328d will have a four-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine that puts out 180 horsepower.
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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