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Originally Posted by WarChild
I say again, horsepower is always a function of fuel and air.
In order to make X amount of power, you need at a min. y amount of air and z amount of fuel. There's no way around that.
So a 4.0 litre engine making 200 horsepower versus a 2.0 litre engine making 200 horsepower is going to use more or less the same amount of fuel. Engine effeciency is not all that different between Europe and the USA.
Christ in 1990 Chevy was putting out 2.3 litre quad valve engines making 180 horsepower and yet you think Europe is so much more advanced in engine design?
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most european cars nowadays have the lowpressure turbo diesel engines and a 6 gear transmission. these engines are very efficient. these versions were not avail in the us as their carbon emission do not pass US standards, in other words, the engines were polluting too much. it sounds like they are now getting very close to fixing this fault so that the engines can be available on US imports this year sometime, VW and Audi have announced already..