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 Welsh plant employs more than 500 people and became the first factory outside Japan to build Toyota's hybrid engine.
So, as Painter sees it, you would buy a Duesenberg with, say, an engine built by Toyota, a chassis by Dana and exterior panels by Owens-Corning.
That will probably come in the future, when Toyota unveils a plug-in engine.
Toyota also announced on Thursday that engine supremo Luca Marmorini had left the company, with Kazuo Takeuchi taking the Italian's place.
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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One of the shrewdest alt-fuel marketing moves Toyota made early on was to create a sub-brand for its hybrid engine technology, with the Hybrid Synergy Drive badge that appears on every Toyota hybrid vehicle.
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.
Car giant Toyota says it is creating 70 jobs at its engine plant in Flintshire to meet an increase in demand.
And the Toyota-style hybrid, we have batteries and gasoline engine onboard.
Ferrari and Toyota have previously threatened to quit the sport if a standard engine was to be introduced.
Toyota says it went to great lengths to cut vibrations and engine and wind noise by adding insulation in the floor and sound-deadening glass in the windshield.
Toyota, Nissan and General Motors are all striving to develop ceramic car engine parts.
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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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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MDI's engine weighs 80 pounds, a third the weight of the powerhouse in a Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) Corolla.
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