Forced induction, direct injection and volumetric efficiency have all helped to render big 12's irrelevant.
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Overall, clean-diesel Turbo Direct Injection models accounted for 21.4 percent of Volkswagen of America sales in August.
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Diesel engine technology took a huge leap with the use of common-rail direct injection (CDI) in the 1990s.
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I'd also note that without direct injection, the Mazda mill fails to fully exploit the car's lighter curb weight.
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Direct injection is also being used in gene-therapy trials on patients with Parkinson's and on those with muscular dystrophy.
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The combination of turbocharging and high-pressure direct injection allows Ford to substitute a smaller engine for a bigger one.
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With technologies like direct injection, cylinder on demand and seven-speed gear boxes, "you don't have to sacrifice, " says Mr. Hoch.
That would have been a 10bn euro direct injection of equity capital into Cyprus's weak banks by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
It adopts the Atkinson cycle and D-4S direct injection technology to optimise both the power and fuel-efficiency benefits of Lexus Hybrid Drive.
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Lightweight technology is one solution of many that we are continuing to develop such as building on our success with direct injection diesels, electric mobility and several others.
The Japanese economy needs a massive, direct injection of liquidity.
Treasury still has in place plans to purchase toxic assets to clean up banks' balance sheets, but the administration's primary goal now seems to be direct injection of capital into banks.
Now, it's true that amazing gains are being made in the efficiency of internal combustion engines, both gas and diesel: direct injection, cylinder deactivation, stop-start, eco-mode throttle mapping, to name a few of the recent applied technologies.
Volkswagen and Audi have been most committed to diesel in the U.S. market, with Audi planning this year to stretch its Turbo Direct Injection clean-diesel option across most of its highest-volume models, and VW pushing to get diesel penetration of its Passat mid-sized sedan to around 25 percent.
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Silverado and Sierra will accomplish its new mileage pinnacle with a 5.3L EcoTec3 V-8 relying on direct injection, cylinder deactivation and variable-valve timing to achieve EPA estimates of 16 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on the highway with two-wheel drive, or 16 in the city and 22 on the highway with four-wheel drive.
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It has 621 bhp and 590 foot-pounds of torque from a 6-liter, direct-injection engine.
Engines are getting more powerful as they get more fuel-efficient, thanks to turbochargers and direct-injection fuel systems.
The "W12" refers to the 6.3-liter, 500-hp direct-injection engine, with four rows of three cylinders conjoined at the crankshaft.
Automakers have been achieving incremental improvements in the efficiency of their conventional engines with new technologies like direct-injection, six-speed transmissions, turbo-chargers and start-stop systems.
Automakers have been achieving incremental improvements in the efficiency of their conventional engines with new technologies like direct-injection, six-speed transmissions, turbochargers and start-stop systems.
Let me hit you with some numbers: The Cayman and Cayman S are equipped with direct-injection, dry-sump, flat-six engines, displacing 2.7 liters and 3.4 liters, respectively.
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The coupe's powertrain is almost unchanged from the sedan: a 3.6-liter direct-injection V6 with scads of refined horsepower (304 hp) and torque spilled all over the tach.
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New gas direct-injection 4-cylinder engine weighs less than earlier model.
Cars like the Buick Encore, Fiat 500 and Lincoln MKZ, meanwhile, improve mileage through direct fuel injection, which injects gas directly into the combustion chamber in extremely precise amounts.
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Ideally it should come from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Europe's new bail-out fund, as a direct capital injection into banks rather than as loans to governments, which then use the money to recapitalise their ailing lenders.
The 2.0-liter direct-injection turbo four (240 horsepower, 251 pound-feet of torque) is certainly adequate to hustle the Evoque along the highway, but the character of the engine (a Ford EcoBoost in British drag) can get pretty thrashy and stressed when you hammer it.
Its upcoming 2012 Veloster coupe weighs just 2, 584 pounds (400 pounds lighter than a Scion tC and about the same as a Mini hardtop) and will deliver 138 horsepower and get up to 40 miles per gallon with its little 1.6-liter gasoline direct-injection engine.
Thanks to the efficient turbocharged, common-rail, direct fuel-injection diesel engine, the concept car is still very fuel-efficient.
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The efficiency is thanks in part to Toyota's direct- and port-injection 3.5-liter V6 (306 horsepower and 277 pound-feet of torque) mated to a six-speed automatic with paddle shifters.
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