It was another successful outing for Groupe PSA at the 19th international Engine of the Year Awards in Stuttgart, with the company’s 1.2 litre turbocharged three-cylinder PureTech petrol engine snagging this year’s Engine of the Year award in the 1-1.4 litre category.
This marks the third year in the row the PureTech engine has won the award, completing a hat trick of wins. Available in PureTech 110 S&S (110 hp) and PureTech 130 S&S (130 hp) configurations, over 850,000 units of the engine have already been produced since its launch in 2014.
The PureTech engine is used in over 90 vehicles across PSA’s subsidiaries – Citroen, DS Automobiles, Opel and Peugeot. This includes models such as the Peugeot 3008 (2017 European Car of The Year) and the new Citroen C3.
Closer to home, the turbo three-cylinder can be found in the latest Peugeot 208 and 2008, both of which made their launch debut in Malaysia earlier this year. The new motor is a big improvement from the previous 1.6 litre naturally-aspirated four-cylinder engine, and gets a six-speed Aisin automatic transmission (replacing the old four-speed auto).
Performance gains include a quicker zero to 100 km/h time on both models, and even lower fuel consumption figures. On the 208, the claimed figure is 4.5 litres per 100 km on the 208 (from 6.7 litres per 100 km) and 4.8 litres per 100 km on the 2008 (from 6.5 litres per 100 km).
Moving forward, PSA aims to increase annual production of the engine, which it says will exceed one million units by 2019. Along the way, it will introduce plenty of revisions to improve and refine the engine further, a few of which will be implemented before the end of 2017.
This includes installing a new particulate filter to reduce particulate emissions by more than 75% in anticipation of the future regulation standards in Europe and China in 2020, optimising the engine’s combustion cycles and injection pressure, reducing mechanical friction and introducing a new turbocharger, and making the engine more compact.
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The Europeans are continuously improving their engine technology with new generation of engines introduced in new models whereas the Japanese continue to carryover dinosaur engines from previous car models to new models
Strict emission standard in europe is the reason for this continuous advancement. Same goes with safety and everything else. Its the high standards that sets the rules for businesses. Meanwhile in Msia is the other way around. Emission and safety standards are at bottom low just to tongkat our complacent homegrown businesses. Then they wonder wtf we are still stuck in the middle income trap.
Lilytan… If u do those things, it will result in higher cost. And the rakyat will further complain on high cost of living…
Hope this round they don’t kaput like the 1.6T Prince Engine la. Is crazy to keep repairing and with persisting problems after few months
1.5l turbo on civic, 1.5l Atkinson dohc on jazz both within this year. New engine in the pipeline for accord iinm, Acura nsx new engine, CHR new engine. Huh…am… I… … dreaming…?
That is why japanese engines can last forever. 1990 toyota engine still running strong without problems. Look at 5 year old Peugeot 3008. You find 10 friends with that car. All 10 cars everything spoilt beyond repair. Visit mechanic 10 times also still check engine light. I do ECU diagnostic checking for customers. I have a customer with 3008 in 6 months have paid me over RM500 just for checking ECU diagnostics. Till today still coming out check engine light!
hi,
you means its better to buy japanese than the peugeot 3008 with puretcet 1.2l
i’m deciding between mitsubishi eclipse and peugeot…what can you say about the eclipse
thanx
so for this engine, is it easy to service compare to my current peugeot car that need to send 1 night for service at service center
even current 1.6/1.6 turbo Peugeot engines can be serviced within 2 hours what are you talking about?
If Pijot so good, keep winning awards, why sales so poor in Boleh-Land. Let’s not even go into RV.
All I hear are unhappy owners, cars going in & out of service centres for repairs after repairs. Many blame the tropical heat but these French cars widely sold in the ex colonies in Africa, Lebanon, Syria which also have harsh climates.
So why does French cars break down so much over here. The Germans, the Swedes (now China owned), the British (now Indian owned) made cars all have less breakdown issues vs these French cars.
The reason my friend is called over-engineering. All the new technology employed that impress the judges to win engine of the year, is also the main drawback in terms of durability reliability. It’s not that Japanese manufacturers are not introducing new features, they will first test it to make it reliable before introducing into mass market serial production. Cost-cutting is one thing, introducing it without validation is another.
In any case, if you view the lineup of journalist voting for the EOTY award, most of them are European anyway. So go figure…
EOTY, thats the biggest pile of cat poo you have written. Japanese are slow in new technology adoption. Thats why the Koreans and even the Chinese are beating them these days. I have been to China and met Chinese entrpreneurs in the car industry. They tell me its just a matter of time before China overtakes Japan in the car industry. But they say China.will never match the Europeans cause they do not plan to allocate a large budget for R&D like the Germans do. Also China lacks skilled mechanical engineers in the motorvehicles industry that Germany has. So China does not plan to even try to match Germany or Europe, but they know they can beat Japan and Korean easily.
the reason my friend is because Malaysians are unable to change their mindset and try on new things, a well maintained Pug can go far without problems and i’m speaking from experience not just guessing
I speak from experience too. I have a well maintained pug. Services were done by pug service centre, services done within the required intervals. But the car always broke down, either this or that. I even had to replaced the entire 156hp Prince Engine once. Notice a lot of cars in the service center, and the technician told me engine problem.
The blame it on Malaysian’s dirty fuel though and our hot weather, don’t know if that’s true.
Pity. It’s a good handling car, fun to drive, except it fails miserably in the durability department.
Things that had broke down in my car other than the engine:
1）Some sensors to the wheel, got to change the sensors to the front wheels, broke down one after another within 2 months span
2) Change air con. The pump broken down. Unfortunately, the technician said the pump is not detachable, so change entire air – con
3) DRL – the bulb comes with adaptor, so it cost RM200
4) Alternator.
By the way, my car is 6 years old
Because Msians are too lazy to drive manual.
Peug reliability isn’t as bad with their manual models. Manual is simpler, more durable and more heat efficient than auto.
Too few Europeans drive auto, so they suck at it. Auto is seen as rich man’s gearbox, so reliability isn’t a concern.
This engine wins multiple awards but yet hafriz review seems to indicate it should have not with his comments on vibration, FC and noise issues. So what engine (3/4 cyl) is actually the best?
Please name it Spoiltec. It better suits the Peugeot image!