Taiwanese automaker Luxgen has released more information on its new 2.2 litre MEFI Turbo engine that will be available in their MPV. The engine seems to be boosted quite lightly by its Garrett turbocharger, producing 175 horsepower at 6,000rpm and 255Nm of torque between 2,500 to 4,000rpm. Interestingly when details on the Luxgen MPV was first released the engine output was rated at 200 horses and 280Nm but I guess the engine has been revised now – perhaps they are playing it a little safe for reliability.
BMW and PSA Peugeot Citroen’s Prince engine can produce similiar horsepower and torque figures (both in terms of peak and spread) from their turbo direct injection 1.6 litre engine, but still it’s a good start and the higher torque is definitely necessary to move an MPV around comfortably. The engine complies to Euro 4 standards and is reverse-mounted, positioning the intake in front and the exhaust together with its turbocharger at the firewall side of the engine bay. This allows for the catalyst to be positioned closer to the exhaust manifold which helps with emissions.
I can’t wait for the year end where hopefully we’re going to be reading blog posts such as this one, except that we’ll be covering Proton’s new Project Phoenix turbocharged engine instead!
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wooohh… i cant wait anymore for Proton to release turbo engine as other motor makers keep releasing turbo tech frequently. What happen to Petronas E01 family engine? Do any further progress being made by Petronas? or they just close the book already?
Proton ditched the Sauber engine and opted for the Campro
instead. Looking forward to the much talked about Turbo
6 speed tranmission.
Just hope that the gearbox issue has been settled.
As mentioned reliability is the main concern for turbo engines.
the engine already sold to nanjing motor china
It’s not sold. Petronas give the rights to Nanjing. So for each engine produce, Petronas get royalty (or should I say Wang Ihsan). Proton have to ditched the engine E01 because there’s no economic of scale to produced the quite expensive engine. Chinese have a big market, they can achieve scale of economic easily. Very very easy.
cant wait 4 the Turbo exora..
‘L’…trying to follow lexus
FIA is thinking of having turbo engines for the F1 cars instead of the current NA engine.
If that’s the case, lotus should be able to develop good turbo engines, that is competable in F1 (if they still in the game).
And proton as the mother branch should be able to benefit from the technology and hopefully proton turbo will be as good as volkwagen’s or BMW’s.
2.2 litre Turbocharge with those figure, they must be joking…. No thanks!
Turbo proton, i might get 1 of them
Turbo Exora has been targetted street price at RM 99,999.
Do you need to reconsider?
Proton is currently re arranging their models with price range. Come next month will see the new Perdana and maybe the finalize New WAJA (Lancer) if the tail light design is fixed.
RM 99, 999. 00. Saya rasa kena rendahkan sikit la harga tu kepada maximum RM 90, 000 Sebab kalau harga tu dah masuk dlm persaingan dgn Naza Rondo, Nissan Grand Livina. Apapun dengan kuasa Exora Turbo lebih baik berbanding beli Mazda 5, Honda Stream dan Toyota Wish bg kebanyakan orang dengan harga tu.
Proton Perdana akan diganti ngan model Volkswagen Passat CC. Proton Waja bulan Ogos ni keluar, RM 70 000 – RM 80, 000. 2 option engine 1.8 dan 2.0 tapi tak pasti enjin pe
Kami boleh mimpi saja… :(
I remember in the 1980’s there were many turbo cars – Lancer turbo, 300ZX T, 200SX T, Bluebird T, VR-4, Supra T, RX-7, Starion, Audi Quattro, Renault 5T etc etc. After that seemed to have died down (reliability issues ?). Now, the turbo cars return. I wonder if the reliability issue have been solved. Anybody to comment ?
nampak macam dah bertambah pesaing dlm dunia auto. dgn china nya, dgn iran nya, dgn rusia nya dan skrg dgn taiwan nya. persaingan semakin sengit. baik untuk pengguna sebab makin byk pilihan.
cakap pasal enjin ni. ia kerjasama dgn sykt dari USA. MPV ni memang berteknologi tinggi. siap ada WIFI system dlm MPV hasil kerjasama dgn HTC. memang benda2 komputer dan elektronik byk sumbat dlm MPV ni. maybe Taiwan nak show dunia diarang lead dlm bidang ICT dgn sykt2 ternama spt Asus, Acer, HTC adalah milik mereka. High end MPV tak silap. semua barang2 dalam MPV ni guna barang2 berkualiti dr sykt2 ternama dunia. Cumanya branding tak cukup kuta di arena global.
http://www.luxgen-motor.com/cars/7-MPV/default.asp
kalau nak tgk genius technology dalam MPV ni
http://www.luxgen-motor.com/technology/think-plus.asp
2.2L producing a mere 175hp ? so lame …it is acceptable if it is a diesel engine
Torque figures are more important for MPV. You want that initial quick burst to move at a good pace. You’re not going to do 200kmh in an MPV are you?
mazda gtx engine ie: BPD 1.8 cc producing 210hp btw.
if not mistaken, this Luxgen will be using Renault Espace chassis…and that chassis is strong and light enough for big MPV…
yup. its true