check this out, VW has a turbo AND supercharged engine!:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/automot...cbccdrcrd.html

That might be nice... think of those mods!

 

hmmmn I think I have seen this somewhere....oh yeah!!....LOL...




naw... I'm just teasing.... honestly, it's kewl to see manufacturers getting back into this...

 

heh... yeah, I didn't know where it was most appropriate

 

What about reliability? Might be a little risky. Am I wrong?

 

I think if you are doing mods like this, reliability isn't your primary concern.

 

30 city and 48mpg highway out of a twincharged car....hrmm. It runs off of oxygen? Something doesn't add up here.

For a twincharged car....0-62 (62?) in 7.9sec is outright rediculous. And I don't see how a car can run off of straight oxygen, yet still have exhaust fumes to power the turbo?

-Cody

 

I think they aimed the oxygen gobbling phrase to emphasize how the car relys on boosting methods for power, rather than combusting more fuel with a larger engine.

If I didn't already love my MINI I would be interested if they brought this to the US market.

 

Why is that funny?

 

i think it is 62 mph because that is about 100km/h, they must do 0-100km/h in europe

 

Alright, you need to read the specs again, it is a 1.4lt 4 cylinder motor. It is not made for performance concerns, it is for mileage, goofball Reading too much TULS threads

 

not series. USes the SC for low RPM, and the turbo for high RPM. It's not like the mods done to the Mini, which use the SC to pressurize the incoming air for the turbo.....

And this isn't for power, it's for efficiency. The SCs crap out at higher RPM, and the turbos need some RPMs to get happy.... With this design, each system is used when it's most efficient.

But this isn't new. The Lancia WRC B class cars did this when they were getting really, really nasty scary dangerous!

Matt

 

30 city and 48mpg...that's damn good! I want one.

 

from . . not for

 

my bad....

 

what whaaat....LOL... Hey I get 25 mpg average and saw 30 mpg on the way back from Vegas....

ofcourse I also saw other cars stall out as I pass them under WOT cause I sucked all thier gass up as well as mine...LOL