I'm rather looking forward to driving the car with the hot little turbo engine and six-speed manual.
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It has a 616hp V8 twin turbo engine that works rear-driven wheels and a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission.
Turbocharging is also making its way into larger vehicles, like the 2012 Ford Explorer, which gets an optional turbo engine.
Inadequate in the smaller Jetta and a cruel joke in the Passat, the 2.5L will be replaced with a small-displacement gas-turbo engine for model-year 2013, and not a second too soon.
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The twin-turbo V6 replaces the naturally aspirated 4.8-liter V8 engine in the previous-generation Panamera S and Panamera 4S. The new bi-turbo engine is also used in the Executive version of the Panamera 4S. The engine's figures themselves are indicators of progress: increases of 20 hp and 15 lb-ft torque when compared to the outgoing V8 engine.
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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.
The 3.8-liter, twin-turbo V8 engine shows through the rear lid of the car.
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More performance and efficiency in a smaller powerplant: the new twin-turbo V6 engine Increasing both performance and efficiency has long been a core Porsche philosophy.
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It has a 5.9 litre Cummins turbo diesel engine (2) at the front that allows it to reach a maximum of 65 kph (40mph) on roads.
The powertrain, which we saw earlier on a concept car, combines a V6 bi-turbo gas engine with a 95 horsepower electric model for 416 total system horsepower.
Stadler drove out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
Yesterday, AUDI AG chairman Rupert Stadler gave his own keynote address at CES, driving out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
The Pilatus PC12 is built in Switzerland and is a single-engine Turbo-Prop with 9 passenger seats, plus one pilot.
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Instead of adding a turbo to get more power out of the same engine, they are adding a turbo to get the same amount of power out of a smaller engine.
Last month, Brock piloted a single-engine, turbo-prop airplane to California, carrying 20 dental chairs and other supplies for RAM's 663rd mission.
The 1.4-liter four-cylinder turbo in the Dodge Dart generates 160 hp, the same as a bigger, 2.0-liter engine without a turbo.
There's also a new CTS performance model, the Vsport, with a twin-turbo V-6 engine that can go from zero to 60 mph in an estimated 4.6 seconds.
This is the first year for the 6-series with the N55 engine, the twin-scroll turbo, 3.0-liter in-line six that so admirably muscles the 335i around.
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The base engine gives good love: 300 hp from turbo I-5 that produces 250 hp and 266 lb-ft of torque.
The engine note is pleasing, too, with just a touch of turbo spool-up from under the hood and a nicely resonant thrum coming from the dual exhausts.
The 2.0-liter engine in the Beetle is the same unit you can find in the Golf and Jetta, a torquey turbo that produces 200 hp and 207 lb-ft of torque.
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