4 Cylinder Engines
As the fuel economy rules become stricter in the next few years, many automakers will be offering 4 cylinder engines in their vehicles to meet these rules. BMW will be adding these four cylinder vehicles by 2012 in the 3 series. Several others models by BMW are being considered for four cylinder engines. The four cylinder engines with be equipped with twin-turbo diesel engines. Someone made a really good point about these engines. People buy BMWs for performance and power and if you make a expensive, fast 4 cylinder engine then it won’t get the gas mileage that they need to get. Therefore the power that is needed for customers to want to buy the BMWs is going to have a hard time working in a 4 cylinder. It’ll definitely have to be something new, because the current 4 cylinders are not powerful enough for the price tag of a BMW (in my opinion of course!) Mercedes-Benz is also considering these engines, and again may have the same problems as BMW. Well, the good news for these and other automakers is that they have time. It will be interesting to see how most of the automotive companies make out by 2016 when the mpg average needs to be 35.5. Most have some work to do, others have ALOT of work to do.