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With its second-generation R8, Audi has launched the car with a V-10 engine as the standard option and is offering a battery-powered electric e-tron model as an alternative. This is in contrast to the original R8, which launched with a V-8 that was later augmented by a V-10. DON'T MISS: Watch This 1,300-Horsepower Audi R8 Shoot Flames: Video Audi R&D boss Ulrich Hackenberg has previously hinted that a downsized engine with turbocharging may be offered in the new R8, to help circumvent harsh tax penalties imposed on high-displacement engines in certain markets, namely China. And it’s...
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New Bristol Sports Car To Feature BMW Power
Revived British sports car company Bristol Cars has chosen to equip its new model with a BMW powerplant. The car Bristol first announced late last year and referred to as “Project Pinnacle” is set to launch sometime this year. Bristol only built a handful of cars during the 2000s which...
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Ford Mustang Shelby GT350’s V-8 Confirmed At 526 HP And 429 LB-FT: Video
The Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has already revealed many of the secrets of the new Mustang Shelby GT350 but arguably the most crucial factor, the output of its new 5.2-liter V-8 engine, has remained a mystery… until now. Yes, we can finally confirm that the bespoke, flat-plane crankshaft...
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Odd-Fire 552-CI Ford V-12 Le Mans Racing Engine Is Amazeballs
If the apocalypse movies of the 1990s taught us anything, it’s that if you need something impossible, unlikely, impractical, and utterly awesome done, and you want it done yesterday, you call in the rednecks. This V-12 Le Mans Ford engine that never was but already is makes a perfect real...
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Close Look At The 2015 Nissan GT-R LM NISMO's Twin-Turbo V-6: Video
Nissan developed a new twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 engine for its GT-R LM NISMO race car, which makes its competition debut at next month’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The engine’s basic design is shared with a production unit of the same displacement that Nissan’s upmarket brand...
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Porsche Confirms Four-Cylinder Engine For 2017 Boxster And Cayman
Porsche officials have hinted at the possibility of a four-cylinder engine for the Boxster and Cayman since at least 2008. And in 2011 a senior Porsche exec confirmed that a four-cylinder engine with a horizontally-opposed ‘boxer’ design was in fact in the works. Now, Porsche CEO...
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The future of the Volkswagen Group’s W-12 is safe thanks to innovations that ensure the big brute of an engine meets more stringent emissions regulations coming into force over the next several years. At the past week’s Vienna Motor Symposium, the same event where Audi presented its next-generation 2.0-liter four-cylinder, the VW Group unveiled a new 6.0-liter W-12 destined to appear in vehicles from a handful of the automaker’s brands. The new engine retains the unique W-pattern cylinder arrangement favored by the VW Group for its larger engines. It also keeps the 6.0-liter...
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Next-Gen Audi A4’s New 2.0-Liter TFSI Presented At Vienna Motor Symposium
Audi revealed a new 2.0-liter TFSI engine at this week’s Vienna Motor Symposium, which the automaker says will first appear in the next-generation A4 due for a reveal later this year. However, it’s not clear if the engine will be fitted to A4s sold in the States as the new engine...
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2016 Mercedes-Benz G-Class Benefits From New V-8, Chassis Upgrades
We recently reported that Mercedes-Benz, in an effort to curb the emissions on its G-Class, was planning to replace the current 5.5-liter V-8 in the G550 (a G500 in other markets) with a smaller yet more powerful 4.0-liter mill. Well, the German automaker has now confirmed the news while also...
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Mercedes-Benz G550 To Downsize To Twin-Turbo 4.0-Liter V-8
In an effort to curb the emissions on its G-Class, Mercedes-Benz will replace the current 5.5-liter V-8 in the G550 variant (a G500 in other markets) with a smaller yet more powerful 4.0-liter mill. The information was confirmed to Dutch website Autovisie by Wolf-Dieter Kurz, who is in charge of...
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More 2016 Chevrolet Camaro Tech Secrets Revealed
The all-new sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro is set to be revealed May 16 at a special public event hosted at Detroit’s Belle Isle Park, and in the lead up Chevy has been dropping small morsels of information on the car. Previously, we learned that the new Camaro will be 28 percent stiffer...
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Cadillac To Get New, Unique V-8 Despite Talk Of The V-8’s Death
The V-8 means a lot of things to a lot of people. For the enthusiast, it’s the staple of all things fun and awesome: sound, power, speed. For the greenie, it’s a symbol of waste, excess, and old technology. So what does the future of the V-8 look like? In a very well-written and...
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At present the only Alfa Romeos on sale on these shores is the 4C sports car and its 4C Spider convertible variant. Over the coming years, the automaker will start adding more models to its lineup, with an aim to have at least eight separate model lines by 2018. This will also require the addition of more engines, but rather than borrow units from sister brand Fiat, as has been the case in the past, Alfa plans to introduce new, more exciting powerplants. In an announcement made this week, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] CEO Sergio Marchionne confirmed that Alfa Romeo will start...
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Hyundai Confirms Twin-Turbo V-6 For Genesis
With the arrival of the all-new 2015 Genesis, Hyundai introduced a new design language, rear-wheel-drive platform and sophisticated all-wheel-drive system, but strangely this groundbreaking car for the Korean brand used carryover engines from the previous model. It turns out Hyundai, in a move that...
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Scaled-Down Porsche Engine Scales Up The Awesome: Video
It took years to build, but something like this is undoubtedly a labor of love. A Dutch Porsche enthusiast who also happens to be a crafter of precision instruments decided to bring his two passions together. The result is a wonderful looking 1:3 scale Porsche flat-six engine. Did we say looking...
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2016 Cadillac CT6 To Pack 400-HP Twin-Turbo V-6, Next-Gen V-6 Details
The Cadillac CT6 is one of the most anticipated debuts of the 2015 New York Auto Show, and Cadillac has just honed the edge of our interest: it will pack a 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 engine good for 400 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque. MUST WATCH: Angry Supercar Hater Throws Rocks At...
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Hand-Building A Bugatti Veyron’s W-16 Quad-Turbo Engine: Video
Not even a small town’s worth of people will ever own a Bugatti Veyron of any stripe, and it’s no longer being built, but it’s still one of the most important cars of the past two decades. Here, we get to see the quad-turbocharged, W-16 engine being built. MUST SEE: First 725-HP...
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BMW To Introduce Water-Injection System On New M4 GTS?
BMW recently unveiled a new water-injection system that’s said to result in both efficiency gains and more power by improving engine combustion. The technology, popular in the aftermarket world, is being demonstrated in BMW’s M4 safety car used in MotoGP but is also destined for the...
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Cadillac Boss Johan de Nysschen recently stopped by (virtually) Jalopnik to answer a round of questions from the readers. Johan is a man who isn't afraid to lay out future plans like some in the business, so it's no surprise that he spilled some future product beans while chatting it up. Most notable of his answers to the many questions? The fact that a new family of V-6 engines is coming, and will be debuted in the new CT6 sedan. ALSO SEE: Hellcat Vs. Hellcat: Tires Shredded, Faces Melted, Internet Broken There are no technical details yet for the new engine series, but de Nysschen says that...
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Twin-Turbo Power Coming To Next-Generation Hyundai Genesis Coupe?
The Genesis Coupe made an unapologetically bold entrance at the 2008 New York International Auto Show. But amid the literal fireworks, donuts and—it should be noted—lukewarm Van Halen covers, plenty in the motor press were questioning Hyundai's decision to not leave enough room in the...
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Hypnotic Time-Lapse Teardown Of A Porsche Flat Six: Video
Tearing down an engine is often a long, laborious process. Still, it's a means to an end and it's typically work that has to be done. There's a team in Germany that had to tear down the flax-six engine of a Porsche 911. Their goal is to hot rod the thing, and step one is taking it all the way...
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New Engine Developed For Porsche 911 GT3 RS: Report
Porsche is close to launching a new generation of its 911 GT3 RS and it seems like a week can’t go by without some new information being revealed. Recently an undisguised version of the track-focused special was spotted in a garage near Porsche’s headquarters in Germany, and now we have...
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Honda Confirms Turbo Four For U.S., Possible Hot Civic On The Way
We recently brought you news that a new turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine being developed for the not-for-U.S. Civic Type R would eventually be offered in our own Civic, finally giving the car the performance kick it needs to fend off rivals. Going some way towards substantiating the...
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2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Power Down With 87 Octane--Updated With Comment From Ford
UPDATE: A Ford spokesman has explained that while horsepower in the Mustang EcoBoost will be down when using 87 octane fuel, as will be the case with virtually any engine when using a fuel with a lower octane rating than the recommended level (in this case 93), the torque figure is unchanged at 320...
Jeff Glucker