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What article?
Posted by nwas (more from nwas) on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:17:33
In Reply to: Turbo charging, bcharliek, Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:33:44
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You left out the link.
Without seeing the article, I will comment on one point I have raised previously. Back in the autumn of 2008 (pre crash, pre bailout), the US Gov't agreed to give the automakers loans of about $8billion each to invest in "new technology" to improve fuel economy and advance the state of automobile engineering. The money had to be spent on innovation. The Big 3 all took the loans.
I remember Ford describing how they were going to use the money to build an exciting new engine for the Mustang that would be much smaller (4 cyl) and use turbo charging to achieve the same performance as a V8. This was their move to advance the state of auto-engineering (I guess since they live in the 1950's that adopting a 30 year old Saab technology was perceived as a major technology advance).
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