Comments on: GM Europe to lauch two new engines by 2010

By: olds307

olds307 — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:33:30 +0000

so, were they designed by Opel or GMDAT?

By: xyunya

xyunya — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:11:15 +0000

johnnycanuck, but GM charge 25K for it!

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:17:49 +0000

You could probably slap a little mitsu turbo onto the ol’ Metro 3-cyl and get 120hp… $2000 for the car… $2000 for a turbo kit, install, and tune. Not bad… not bad.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:37:28 +0000

Can you imagine if your old 1.0 litre Geo Metro had 120 horse? Now that I would pay $6,000 for.

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:21:40 +0000

A turbo Aveo with 140hp is something that I would be interested in. That would be a pretty fun little car considering how light it is.

Now if they only made the turbo into a seperate unit. Building it into the exhaust manifold just sucks for tuners.

By: global_lightning

global_lightning — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:11:03 +0000

We’ll probably see these in the next generation Aveo. The current Aveo gets around 30 MPG. Combined with GM’s two-mode hybrid system, this drivetrain could easily exceed 40 MPG.
As far as fuel goes, GM has already figured out how to run the 3.6L Cadillac V6 on 87 octane with a very high 11.4 compression ratio. This is mostly due to the Direct Injection system. Given the target market for these vehicles, I can’t see GM requiring 92+ octane for this motor.

By: xyunya

xyunya — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:03:55 +0000

How come no one mentioned yet that Toyota, Honda and japs all suck and cant make cars for US?

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:38:25 +0000

Wow… a whole 8%… that’s huge!
So instead of a 2.0L motor that burns regular gasoline and gets 25MPG… you will have a 1.4L turbo motor that burns premium fuel and gets 27MPG.

Cost vs savings analysis says… nope… not worth it.

The vast majority of American cars are too big and heavy to be pulled around by these little coke-bottle engines anyways.

GM would be better off de-tuning the LNF… dropping the boost to 10PSI… and using it in the small cars to get around.

By: DialM4Speed

DialM4Speed — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:27:51 +0000

Uhhh!!! Walnut motors! Why not use a couple of squirrels in a cage!!

By: carguy70

carguy70 — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:15:20 +0000

They will come here! With the new CAFE regs we will need them!

By: foster1

foster1 — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:09:16 +0000

Has anyone else noticed that the new’s is more and more about everywhere else but the U.S. lately