Volkswagen has snapped up the International Engine of the Year award again this year. This is the second year in a row that their new 1.4 litre TSI Twincharger engine has won the annual engine award scoring 384 points ahead of BMW’s 3.0 litre twin turbo direct injection engine with 365 points and the normally aspirated 6.2 litre AMG V8 engine trailing with 258 points.
International Engine Of The Year
In its highest state of tune, Volkswagen’s twincharged 1.4 litre TSI engine is able to produce 178 horsepower (180 PS) thanks to a combination of forced induction using both a supercharger and a turbocharger.
Best New Engine
The best new engine award goes to another turbocharged 1.4 litre engine – this formula seems to hit the sweet spot with the judges. Fiat’s 1.4 MultiAir turbo uses an electrohydraulic system to independently and infinitely control each cylinder’s inlet air charge. There are five modes of inlet valve timing and lift which are selected according to driving style.
Green Engine Of The Year
Toyota’s 1.8 litre Hybrid Synergy Drive system is available in Malaysia in the latest generation Prius. At first exclusive for the Prius, the system is now also installed in other Toyota cars like the Auris HSD. The engine sips just 5.65L/100km on a combined cycle.
Best Performance Engine
The winner for this category is AMG’s 6.2 litre normally aspirated V8 found in their “63” cars, which also won this award in 2009. In case you were wondering, Nissan’s 3.8 litre twin turbo from the GT-R comes in at 5th place. This may be the last year the AMG engine will be in this competition though as it is likely to be replaced across the range by a new 5.5 litre turbocharged V8.
Under 1.0 litre Engine
For the smallest engine category, Toyota’s 1.0 litre motor weighing just 67kg found in their Japanese-French Aygo, the iQ, the 1.0 litre Yaris, and the Subaru Justy takes home the honours. This engine has won for the fourth consecutive year!
1.0 litre to 1.4 litre Engine
The twincharged engine that won the overall award naturally takes the top honours in this category, and it is followed by Fiat’s “best new engine” in second place and the single force inducted version of VW’s 1.4 litre TSI in third place. A smaller 1.2 litre turbocharged Volkswagen engine is in fourth place.
1.4 litre to 1.8 litre Engine
This category’s winner is none other than the 1.6 litre BMW-PSA Prince engine found in the MINI as well as most Peugeot vehicles. For a long time this engine was only accessible to Malaysians in expensive MINIs but Naza has managed to make an award winning engine affordable to the masses in the form of the very attractively priced Peugeot 308 and subsequently its recently launched 3008 crossover sibling.
1.8 litre to 2.0 litre Engine
This category’s winner is an oil burner – a twin turbocharged inline-4 to be exact, from BMW stables. The engine makes 204 horsepower thanks to its two turbochargers, each of a different size taking care of different engine speeds. This twin-turbo 4-potter diesel beat competitors such as Mitsubishi’s Evo X turbo engine, Audi’s 2.0 litre TFSI and the Civic Type R’s high-revving screamer.
2.0 litre to 2.5 litre Engine
The winner of this category is only found in one car – the Audi TT RS. This engine is a 5-potter, which is a relatively unusual configuration in modern days as car companies usually jump to a V6 when going up from an inline-4, likely because of packaging reasons. Judges described the engine as having it all – torque, power and a beautiful sound. While turbocharged 4-potters might be impressive in the torque and power department, a four cylinder will always be a four cylinder.
2.5 litre to 3.0 litre Engine
BMW’s 3.0 litre twin turbocharged engine wins again in this category, and second in place is another twin turbo BMW 3.0 litre engine, except burning diesel instead of petrol. In third place is Audi’s new 3.0 litre supercharged V6, which is a rather curious engine as it was announced very recently in a time when most are switching to turbos instead, including Mercedes-Benz which recently abandoned the Kompressor for the new CGI tech.
3.0 litre to 4.0 litre Engine
The 4.0 litre V8 with individual throttle butterflies that wins in this category is sadly only available in the E90/E92/E93 M3, as there is currently no Z4 M to use it. If you don’t count BMW, it’s also available in a few Wiesmann cars. It’s an amazing engine, one of the rare cross-plane high revving V8s around, and its lighter and shorter than the 6-potter in the E46 M3!
Above 4.0 litre Engines
The best performance engine award winner and the winner of the largest displacement category is one and the same, another large normally aspirated V8 just like the BMW engine before this that will soon be replaced by a downsized turbo engine. It produces 525 horsepower and a punchy 630Nm of torque.
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congrats to VW group and congrats as well to fiat and alfa for the new best engine…love to hear that..nice one!!
To all Honda fanboy…where is the much lauded, praised, worshipped iVTEC? according to them it was the ‘best engine’ in the world :-)
I second your motion. Hahahaha!
hahaha to ivtec…..
‘reliable’ engine
they did?
i never read that though.
or u just make up stories?
is the BEST Natural Aspirated (NA) Engine in the WORLD!
hurray to all the pug 308 and 3008 owners as well…..
Virtually, a total dominance by German manufacturers.Hmm..something fishy going on.
I think the best performance engine should go to Ferrari 458 Italia’s 4.5 Liter V8. There’s not much huge leap on the 6.2 Liter AMG since it is essentially following the ‘big cubic inch formula’ (plus supercharged if I’m not mistaken). And where’s Lexus LF-A’s V10????
wow 1.4 VW beats BMW and Merc.
Congratz to VW.
I wonder when Campro will be listed in one of the ranking.
hahaha
and that Toyota 1-litre three cylinder engine
is that the same with daihatsu engine which perodua currently use?
Well, some people in Malaysia here rejected VW so badly that they think their technology can win others… But until now, haven win any great award also for their own engine?
they won ” Malaysia BOLEH” award/
I love tt-rs engine, and also the bmw 2 liter diesel engine. Both are marvelous engines!
what are the criteria for all engine to get good results? this list seems fishy to me as well.
Yup , once again VW , BMW + Merc practically swept the awards …
with T, H, Mitsu + Fiat making up the numbers.
P1 with their Crap-pro can wait for another decade or dream only because
its magement think they are smarter and slammed the doors on VW.
Of course i agree with toyota prius the GREEN engine…. :)
proton, forget the vw, go get the fiat engine now
criteria?
hmm…smaller engine cc. high eff. of fuel consump. and high in hp and torque,
plus low co2 emission…
gud enough to make 1.4 tsi vw the best engine, ever.. period.
I think the best performance engine should go to Ferrari 458 Italia’s 4.5 Liter V8. There’s not much huge leap on the 6.2 Liter AMG since it is essentially following the ‘big cubic inch formula’ (plus supercharged if I’m not mistaken). And where’s Lexus LF-A’s V10????
+1
I wonder if the results list will be the same if the judges were majority Asian… heh.
To paul:
Is there any chance this 1.4 twin charge golf will come to malaysia? Really like this car so much, same hp as my civic but higher torque, so efficiency on 1.4 only! :-)
Ya la.2000 rpm kot keta jerman dah terus dpt torque byk.most kot.nice eh?
yeap..high torque at low rpm…translate to gud FC and driveability for real world/daily usage not like most Japs engine….need to rev at 4,000rpm for torque
Paul, Toyota, Subaru & Nissan engines have won awards before. So i think their judgement is about fuel efficient, eco friendly & output all add togather.. I dont think currently in Japan got any engine which is efficient compare to Europeans technology besides Toyota hybrid..
well..im not surprise vw group engine win again..for sometime their engine i believe is the best among the best..i remember i saw a torque chart one of their engine..the torque line is horizontal when reaching above 1.5k rpm..and that’s peak torque..all the way to redline
Mostly top three are non japanese cars, How come these cars don’t do well in our country? Don’t tell me the engines are unreliable…..
proton can have good engine, the thing is they have to invest.
not iafm, not vim, but to what currently used tech.
anyway cvvt turbo seemed promising therefore please discontinue iafm or vim which it still suffer from lethargy syndrome hence power delivery and economy is bad.
id like to stress that proton product will loose popularity of still using iafm or vim in 2011.
i’m afraid if proton arrested development is made on purpose because thing are taken for granted because the willingness of people to buy unrealistically expensive indonesian taxi (vios or like so) believing its a fine car simply for gov cash cow.
please do it for people, for the average. sincerely, let proton flourish.
To get more revenue, they are trying to keep old and simple technology to generate more profit for their car. Just look at the Campro CPS, performance is not bad, but the price is much expensive than the IAFM, and only available in exclusive model with the price near to those imported car with VVT. Where is Persona CPS? Will it be price less than 50k? Any development on the 1.3 Campro CPS use in Saga? By that time the price be kept below 40k?
Perodua is much better than P1, all their line up with DVVT, include the cheapest Viva 660.
VVT have been proven to be fuel efficient, cheap and easy to maintain compare to others.. That why Daihatsu & Toyota mass produce it so easily.. Compare to Proton CPS, which they want to use more sophisticated valve profile switch + low volumn production.. How u can down cost compare to others? Ur output also cannot win Honda i-VTEC at the same displacement & spec… Just see Honda legendary Civic type-r engine.. You will know what the ratio between cc : hp, compare to our awsome CPS.. Another mistake is still using timing belt, which now a lot of manufacturer switch back to timing chain due to better technology in minimizing maintanence, reducing noice & smoothen the chain action in an engine.. That why Proton will still behind Perodua in term of user friendliness & maintenence issue…
Honda no produce 1.6 i-Vtec la…
reducing noice. are u sure?
would you buy a proton if campro engine is better than Honda’s VTEC? probably no…. i love VTEC myself but CAMPRO’s is fine. the stock CAM-tak-PRO is a joker but with CPS it is in fact ok for the time being. and where is the persona CPS you ask? it a hefty RM60k but the trim inside isn’t bad. they don’t fall apart….
belt and chain debate is a matter of pro and con. there are a lot of good belt driven engine as well. one choose according to need.
btw, i wouldn’t be silly enough to compare vtec in civic type R with CPS. like comparing ciku and durian……
I have driven a 1.4 TSI twincharger on a Scirocco. Very responsive and linear. Makes a nice popping sound from the muffler. At higher RPMs it could use a bit more punch, but there’s the equally great 2.0 TFSI for that. For a 1.4 its really amazing in my opinion.
the popping sound is from the DSG gearbox.. changed TBE and it pops louder!! is fun..
Civic type-R izzit regarding the UK Type-R or the JDM type-R ? which continent get the awards?
For the 1.8 liter to 2.0 liter Engine, how come Audi’s 2 Liter 4 cylinder TFSI takes 2 spot ?
One with valve lift, one without.
For those who are interested in these awards here are some details about the awards and how they score them:
About:
“Judged by a panel of 65 renowned motoring journalists from 32 countries as disparate as the USA, Japan, China, Russia, New Zealand, India, Korea, Germany, France, Romania, South Africa, Mexico and the UK, the Awards highlight and acknowledge engine engineering excellence.
Judges apply their impressions from driving today’s latest cars to help them find the powerplants that offer the best driveability, performance, economy, and refinement, and reward manufacturers for the successful application of advanced engine technology”
Rules:
Capacity Classes: To have qualified for inclusion in the class categories listed below, an engine must have been housed in a passenger car that was on sale in more than one country as of 23 June 2010.
Sub 1-litre • 1-litre to 1.4-litre • 1.4-litre to 1.8-litre • 1.8-litre to 2-litre • 2-litre to 2.5-litre • 2.5-litre to 3-litre • 3-litre to 4-litre • Above 4-litre
Green Engine of the Year: To qualify for inclusion in this Award Category, an engine must have been housed in a passenger car that was on sale in more than one country as of 23 June 2010, and have been designed with fuel economy as a priority and employs intelligent technologies to reduce emissions.
Best Performance Engine: To qualify for inclusion in this Award Category, an engine must have been housed in a passenger car that was on sale in more than one country as of 23 June 2010, and either have been designed specifically for a performance-orientated car or be installed in a vehicle, the aim of which is sporting fun.
Best New Engine 2010: To qualify for inclusion in this Awards category, an engine must have been launched after 7 May 2009 and have been housed in a passenger car that is on sale in more than one country as of 23 June 2010.
International Engine of the Year 2010: The winners of the eight engine capacity classes are shortlisted for the International Engine of the Year 2010 crown.
SCORING
In every category, the panelists judged each shortlisted engine using their subjective driving impressions and technical knowledge, and took into account characteristics such as fuel economy, smoothness, performance, noise and drivability. The jurors each had 25 points to award to their five favourites in each category. A maximum of 15 points could be allocated to an engine, and the minimum was one point. An engine could not be tied for the top slot”
Taken from http://www.ukipme.com/engineoftheyear/
VW ROCKS!!!
Where Campro CPS?
Out of 8 engines on the list;
4 is BMW
1 is VW
1 is Mercedes
1 is Audi
1 is Toyota
That say it all.
Where is Korean engine?
well, that one is not asked by ppl here who were asking where’s the campro…
Korean engine – still lagging behind man hehehh…
bukan ada 1 ke. Under 1.0 liter Engine. no 6
Gratulation! VW
Germany technology rules again..and VW roll out of its technology in several countries (Brazil,China, India, ..), and group’s seven car marquees – VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat, Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti plus stakes in Suzuki. Top 3 (GM, Toyota, VW) in global auto industry sales says it all about VW strength in sales/marketing and R&D. Soon VW will gain Toyota second spot since recent Toyota technical glitches thus recall of their cars . I see Proton has lots of gain through partnership with VW, but sadly ended in separate note.