Topic: International Engine of the Year Awards

[airbalancer]

A nice link about some engines around the world

http://www.ukipme.com/engineoftheyear/categories.html

Prius 1.8l wins for green engine of the year

[initial_D]

That will make all the tree huggers happy .... maybe build a camp fire to celebrate.

[tpl]

It is amazing how few of the engines in the most important classes for Europe and soon to become, with the new CAFE, the most important classes in NA, the 1.4 to 1.8 and 1.8 to 2.0 
that we get here.   I guess because  our fuel is still too dirty and our cars are too heavy for the most part but the NA distaste for diesel cars has a lot to do with it as well.

Just look at that BMW 2.0 turbo diesel with over 100 bhp/litre.  Amazing output and economy.

[airbalancer]

I wonder if Fiat will be stick any of their engines in to small Chrysler products

[Julie]

335i & M3 engines won again too.   

[CatsEye68]

The Prius engine did not win in the 1.8 liter class though, and no wonder, putting out just 98 HP.

That BMW 2-liter TT diesel sounds excellent.

[tpl]

I wonder if Fiat will be stick any of their engines in to small Chrysler products

There is a lot of silence about what models may arrive here from Fiat.   They say the 500 will come to NA and that is eligible for the Multi-Air size wise. Maybe the Alfa MITO  but that would be two very small cars.    But. Can the Multi-Air run on our regular AND produce good emissions AND generate enough torque at low rpm to drive a slush box AND do all that at a suitable price.   

Reading more about it I expect it will manage 3 out of 4.

[Julie]

Just look at that BMW 2.0 turbo diesel with over 100 bhp/litre.  Amazing output and economy.

Rumor has it that twin-turbo 4's are going to take over much of the 3 series next generation (and that is in line with the next gen M3 going down to a T-T 6).  I think that's great.  Hope we get the diesel. 

(Unfortunately, it seems the 335d are not selling much in the States, and that was BMW's first 'test case' for bringing diesels over to North America...  darn.)

[rrocket]

(Unfortunately, it seems the 335d are not selling much in the States, and that was BMW's first 'test case' for bringing diesels over to North America...  darn.)

A bit hard to swallow a test case that costs $45k USD for a base 335D......

[Julie]

(Unfortunately, it seems the 335d are not selling much in the States, and that was BMW's first 'test case' for bringing diesels over to North America...  darn.)

A bit hard to swallow a test case that costs $45k USD for a base 335D......

That's because of American tastes and how they look down on diesels.  Their survey guys must have found that anything less than that would have been a probable failure down there.

Edit: typos.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

1. Volkswagen 1.4-litre TSI Twincharger (VW Golf, Scirocco, Jetta, Touran, Tiguan, Seat Ibiza Cupra)   384
2. BMW 3-litre DI Twin Turbo (135i, 335i, 535i, X5 35i, X6 35i, Z4)   365
3. Mercedes-AMG 6.2-litre (C 63 AMG, S 63 AMG, SL 63 AMG, CL 63 AMG, E 63 AMG, CLS 63 AMG, ML 63 AMG)   258
4. BMW Diesel 2-litre Twin Turbo (123d, X1 23d)   218
5. BMW M 4-litre V8 (M3)   169
6. Audi 2.5-litre five-cylinder turbo (Audi TT RS)   155
7. BMW-PSA 1.6-litre Turbo (MINI Cooper S, Clubman Cooper S, Peugeot 207, 308, MINI JCW, Clubman JCW)   153
8. Toyota 1-litre (Aygo, IQ, Yaris/Vitz, Citroën C1, Peugeot 107, Subaru Justy)