What are you talking about? What BMW has a x.0L badge with an (X-1).0L engine?

This and the infamous “5.0” are the only two examples that I know of. Neither of which are egregious, it’s just a rounding issue. What are some others?

“Bad news - we’re pretty much a “developing market” at this point.”

0-60 in 4.8s and 13.3 1/4 mile is not laughable. That’s much faster than a V6 Mustang.

Porsche offers the B/C with 2.7L, 3.4L, and 3.8L engines.

Sorry dude, but those fuel economy figures are complete and total bullshit. Fuelly says that owners average 19.x mpg and the car is rated by the EPA at 17/25, and we all know those numbers are optimistic as fuck.

It takes a liter of displacement to make up for 500 RPMs of redline.

Pretty much every modern turbo engine makes peak horsepower in the mid-5000 RPM range and peak torque in the low-mid 2000 range. Which is pretty much the same as a 90s era LT1.

I feel like this entire piece was written with the sole intention of bringing into use the word, “naania.”

Are you sure about this? VW is notorious for using inferior parts on their low-output engine variants. Their old 1.8T had completely different internals between the GTI, New Beetle, Passat, A4, and TT.

Not if you’re in a Golf...

That looks an awful lot like a Golf losing to a 911.

It’s cool to see somebody take a Civic in a different direction. When I see one racing, I automatically assume it’s powered by an H22 or a turbocharged B-series.

There was absolutely no logical reason to ever offer it in the US. Management knew it would never sell here because the diesel Cruze was straight-up too damn expensive to produce. People in the US aren’t going to drop nearly 26k on a diesel when there are much better options available for less.

you have to account for hundreds of potentially stupid actions by any number of pedestrians, cyclists, other drivers, random animals, road conditions, weather conditions, etc.

I should start hauling ass in a silver Camry.

The same way we deal with terrible drivers: by learning to look for potentially dangerous behavior.

That sounds like basically any turbocharged engine from the past 10 years. The 2.0L FSI engine reaches like 260 ft.lbs at 1800 rpms, but makes a shitload more HP.

This or the XV Crosstrek?

A European car company building cars that cater to European customers...Who’da thunk it?