Next year Ford will offer a new Focus compact car in Europe, with a one-litre, three-cylinder engine that performs as well as the 1.6 litre, four-cylinder engine it replaces, yet uses about 20% less fuel.
The company announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show that the U.S. version of its Mazda 6 midsize sedan, which got a major redesign for the 2014 model year, will offer a new four-cylinder diesel engine, in addition to a conventional four-cylinder gasoline engine.
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The engine had 25 horsepower and a three-cylinder engine.
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The Gran Turismo should get about what a standard 3-series gets: up to 36 mpg on the highway with a manual transmission and a four-cylinder engine and 33 mpg on the highway with the six cylinder motor and automatic transmission.
The few hybrids BMW has introduced previously, such as the ActiveHybrid 7 and ActiveHybrid X6, which use an eight-cylinder gasoline engine instead of a six-cylinder, have not sold well.
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Volkswagen has to make sure the four-cylinder engine in the Jetta and Audi A4 doesn't outperform the six-cylinder in the Passat and Audi A6.
When powered by gasoline, the C-MAX Energi uses the all-new 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder engine - powerful and fuel efficient and among the most advanced non-turbocharged four-cylinder powertrains Ford has ever offered.
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By eliminating the bulky V6-engine option in favor of a smaller, 4-cylinder turbocharged engine, Hyundai could design the car on a smaller, lighter steel frame.
You can buy the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK with either a 4- or a 6-cylinder engine.
We like the styling, the comfort and the uniqueness of the turbocharged five-cylinder engine.
The car has a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine with a 6-speed automatic transmission and front-wheel drive.
Which is why the base Jaguar XF now comes powered by a seemingly modest 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine.
The C-Class Coupe will also be available with a 302-hp six-cylinder engine that gets an estimated 22 mpg.
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So engineers made upscale features like charcoal-black leather seats and chrome wheels available even with the smallest four-cylinder engine.
Toyota recently said it planned to boost production capacity for the 4-cylinder engine at the plant by more than 100, 000 units.
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At 184 horsepower, the base, four-cylinder engine is slightly less powerful than the 2001 Cherokee's base V6, but it's much more efficient.
Another time, an engineer was developing a prototype for a six-cylinder engine.
It is battery-driven and can be recharged from the mains or by an on-board three-cylinder engine that never directly drives the wheels.
How it goes: A brand new boxer 2.5 4 cylinder engine with CVT that produces 173 hp and 174 lb-ft of torque.
Farley said the 1.0-liter, turbocharged three-cylinder engine has been in the works since before he joined Ford from Toyota in late 2007.
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Nissan offers a four-cylinder and a six-cylinder engine in the new Altima.
Bonhams say that the car's eight-litre, six-cylinder engine with a low gearing ratio allowed "it to creep powerfully through the roughshod jungles of Rajasthan".
Essentially leveraged as a form of high-tech turbocharging, here a small electric motor gives a modest fuel-free power boost to a direct-fuel-injected 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
Heavily automated, it can build a four-cylinder engine in less than the 1.82 worker hours it takes at Toyota's best engine factory in West Virginia.
The ELR will run on an electric propulsion system made of a T-shaped lithium ion battery, an electric drive unit and a four-cylinder engine generator.
The 2014 Jeep Cherokee will also be up to 45 percent more fuel efficient when equipped with a standard four-cylinder engine, which puts out 184 horsepower.
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Coming in three trim levels, all models come powered by a peppy 180-horsepower 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine that drives the front wheels via a six-speed automatic transmission.
It's just hard to score in the luxury market when you refuse to do an eight-cylinder engine, wear undistinguished styling and don't offer a rear-wheel-drive car.
All are equipped with seven standard airbags and an innovative four-cylinder engine that produces 101hp and gets 38mpg on the highway while cutting CO2 emissions by 10%.
New gas direct-injection 4-cylinder engine weighs less than earlier model.
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