03-28-2018, 09:58 AM | #85 |
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That's why there's a class-action lawsuit against BMW, it's a terrible marketing name.
"Twin-Power" is on the 1.5L 3-cyl single-scroll single-turbo, because it's also Valvetronic and DI. The most recent engines that are still under the corporate umbrella of "Twin-Power", such as the quad-turbo Diesel, don't even bother putting the misleading nomenclature on the noise cover anymore. Also, Diesel's are nearly always DI, except those weirdo designs with pre-combustion chambers. Most Diesel's nowadays are marketed as Common Rail to distinguish the very high rail pressure versus an older school "fuel distributor", but they're all still direct injection.
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I always thought the "twin-power" mean that you had an ICE engine AND a turbo, hence the turbo is "helping" the engine and together, they are "twin power". I had a BMW and that was my understanding.
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Then at some point in time BMW said that TwinPower could mean a single twin-scroll turbo or two single-scroll turbos. Then they later said that it was a combination of turbo technology + direct injection (which they had already been doing for years) + Valvetronic (which was already on its 3rd or 4th generation by then). I think that what happened was they backed off on some of the planned applications of twin-scroll but didn’t want to remove the TwinPower badge from vehicles that didn’t have twin-scrolls. The whole turbo + DI + Valvetronic setup had been in place for years before the TwinPower name fell from the sky.
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JDN is now saying Cadillac will not share this engine with Corvette...
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There’s no reason for Corvette to use it. It weighs about as much as the LT4 but is down on power and torque.
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But but but ... it has more technology! It MUST be better in every single possible way. I mean, just look at its specific output!
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That sounds exactly like the reason a snobby high end buyer would say lol
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