Topic: Honda and Toyota Adding More Turbos

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It will end in tears.

Are ya thinking something like a 600cc motor with a turbo..... 

Yep...I can see a whole bunch of small base engines (say a 1.6 litre) combined with an overstressed, always running turbo (let's just call hypothetically call it an 'eco-boost'), trying to propel something as heavy as an SUV, which we shall hypothetically call an 'Explorer'..... 

Naaaahhh....no one is foolish enough to think that a constantly boosting turbo motor straining its small little CC heart out will be more efficient than a properly sized naturally aspirated motor...are they?? 

Thermodynamically it will be.

But, and I'd never buy one, a small turbo'd motor running at constant rpm driving a motor generator set, a battery  and electric traction motor(s) would work well for a big suv. Sort of like a Volt but with the 'range extender' running all the time.     A 1.2 litre diesel should do the trick.

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Sort of like a Volt but with the 'range extender' running all the time.     A 1.2 litre diesel should do the trick.

If only you'd get a phone call from pretty much any and every manufacturer saying:

"YOU'RE HIRED!"

Go and design it.  Now.  Please.

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No one would buy it.  It would sound funny.  You might even have to drive a bit more slowly up long hills...the way people used to.   And Horrors! you might only manage 12 seconds 0-60.