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Porsche: four cylinder powerplant in the works

Porsche: four cylinder powerplant in the works

SYF77

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Porsche is working on a new four-cylinder petrol engine that would power its new baby roadster, the Boxster, the Cayman and potentially even the 911.

 

Outgoing head of R&D Wolfgang Durheimer said at the Detroit show:


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EventH

Just license one from a certain Fuji Heavy Industries and give it twin turbo + Doppelkupplungsgetriebe

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1fast1

^Agreed. Subaru's been at this game (turbo boxer 4s) for so long, and they make some awesome cars. Loving the Top Gear reference, btw. :)

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Elijahritz

This would be a great innovation to the cars of Porsche. It may look like the four-cylinder is a standard type of engine but Porsche was able to make it more powerful that it can boost more than 300+ horsepower in a turbocharged form. I'm kinda anxious if the new engine would work with the current porsche boxster coolant, oil and other things. Anyway, looking forward to see the actual performance of this new four-cylinder petrol engine.

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