General Motors is planning a new series of small turbocharged Ecotec engines, similiar to Volkswagen’s TSI and Fiat’s T-JET series. First in the line up will be a 1.4 litre turbocharged gasoline engine. This engine could be tuned to produce power outputs ranging from equivalent to a normally aspirated 1.6 or even up to a normally aspirated 2.0 litre unit, just like Volkswagen has its 1.4 litre TSI in three stages of tune with two different types of forced induction systems. The 1.4 litre turbocharged GM engine is currently destined for American small cars, but it could slowly find its way into the engine bays of GM’s other cars too, like the Chevrolet Aveo and the Chevrolet Optra sold in Malaysia.
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Doe ecotec means saving the planet in some sort of way or its just small engine=big output?
Ecotec is just a name.
If there is a ‘small car’ marque from the GM stable it would be Chevrolet Aveos which is referred to as ‘sub-compact’. An Opel/Vauxhall/Holden/ Saturn-Astra would be a ‘compact’. So it goes into Astras first before Aveos? If so, then it can find friends in the UK market if there is still some brand presence there.
They should start introducing these cars here. A turbo engine at low RPM would definitely use less fuel than a larger cc engine, and also our yearly road tax would be less!
Just apply it to all new american car b4 throwing it to other countries. Save million gallon of gas
No turbo for proton?
1.4 is a very good capacity 4 everything…