Car and Driver magazine claims that longtime Blue Oval engine designer Jim Clarke has a million dollar idea that could save the internal combustion engine (or at least prolong its life) by extracting even more horsepower out of a smaller engine block.

The concept alters a turbocharged engine in two ways: by using two individual throttle bodies per cylinder (one per intake port) placed right next to the cylinder head to get air into the cylinders more quickly and by placing individual turbochargers as close as possible to the exhaust port of each cylinder.

That means the engine would operate with one turbocharger per cylinder. It might sound like a recipe for sickening amounts of horsepower, but in this case it’s used to get boosted air into the engine more quickly. In order to fit all that under one hood, the turbochargers must be about 20% smaller in size than a conventional spool. A smaller turbo also has less rotating inertia, further speeding up the boosting process.

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Source: http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2017/10/21/Ford-Engineer-Patents-Exotic-Engine-With-One-Turbocharger-Per-Cylinder-7741635/

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Cars like the Mercedes-AMG GT use a V8 with turbochargers inside the V of the engine. In an effort to increase efficiency and performance, some manufacturers have implemented a “hot V” setup in in their engines, placing the turbochargers for their V-shaped blocks between the cylinders rather than on the outside. But how exactly does that improve the engine? Well, it’s all about packaging.

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For Aston Martin, a V12 is a lot more than a pair of inline-six engines joined at the crank. That iconic “vee” configuration has delivered a huge portion of the the character of the previous few iterations of the DB cars.
For the 2017 DB11, Aston Martin has added a pair of turbochargers and dropping the engine displacement, but that just meant even more power from an even more efficient package.

Now, it’s time to down-size further. This is the new, V8-powered DB11, a British icon with an unapologetically German heart. Does the AMG-sourced powertrain stunt the character, or does the 250-pound weight savings mean less is more?

Source: Road Show by CNET

Are electric cars really about to take over from the old-fashioned internal combustion engine?

Judging by some of the headlines we’ve seen recently, you could be forgiven for thinking petrol and diesel engines were about to be consigned to the scrap heap.

Yet the reality is rather different.

Source: BBC News

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Loud, colourful, and with the swaggering might of the German auto industry on full display, Frankfurt 2017 is indeed a show to remember.

Here are Motortrend’s picks of the best from the show floor.

Source: Motortrend