Performance Automobiles is no longer just about performance and speed. It is perhaps best illustrated right now of the electric car Tesla Model S and hybrid BMW i8. For while the world is warming at an alarming pace, starting automotive taking its environmental responsibilities seriously.
Therefore, fast cars in the future be able to deliver low consumption.
Now Volvo made some journalists be allowed to try their until now secret super engine. A 2-liter offering 450 hp total.
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The worlds strongest
The kind of effect did an earlier only through using V8′s. Volvo has managed the feat based on an inline four. It has been named Drive-E High Performance.
And it is certainly can not take in. This is the strongest four-cylinder engine.
The breathe using two turbos and an electric compressor. The latter has only the task to go ahead and drive the two turbos.
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Invited to test
Volvo has not made a car or a transmission that is 100 percent match for this powerhouse. But to give an impression of what it has to offer, they have put the engine in a Volvo S60 and invited a few sample journalists to test it.
British Auto Express and Swedish Auto, Motor and Sport was among those who were in place and got to test monster engine.
Their impressions are very positive. In any case the engine.
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– Goes like a rally car
journalist to Auto Express, James Batchelor, bragging tractive effort:
– Auto shoot off like a 80s rally car, he writes.
acceleration according Batchelor steady and brutal from scratch. But even if the car goes like a bullet, he is not thrilled either the 8-speed gearbox or drive properties.
– The gearbox is not good enough. It reacts slowly maunell mode – and choose the wrong gear in machine. In turns, you get little sense of control, says Bachelor.
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Low weight – low consumption
But it stressed that car after all not built to handle this power source. This is a prototype, where it is the engine that is the main point.
By using a four-cylinder engine, the weight greatly reduced – and it is important for both performance and handling.
The lightweight engine makes the car does not feel too heavy front, and it is good for weight distribution.
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Will come
In addition it is thus this with consumption. Four cylinders and low weight is good news in terms of emissions and consumption. Volvo has so far not gone out with some official figures. But there is no doubt that this engine is far more efficient than those used for example in Polestar models today.
journalist in Swedish Auto, Motor and Sport, Alrik Söderlind, have heard that pototypebilen hardly is entirely coincidental.
– It is talking about the engine can be put in an S60 – and then gets a nice Volvo BMW M3 competitor, he said.
Both Söderlind and Bachelor is impressed effect one has managed to get out of the “little” engine and the way it delivers forces on. The latter concludes by giving it four out of five stars.
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