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Originally Posted by krea.tion
I think your thinking is missing the mark here. There IS a reason for it. Sure you can bore and stroke it, increase displacement but is that a realistic, modern day, idea? No. And its just not the Japanese way. Manufacturers are moving towards turbos, whether for performance reasons or not. It would be absolutely ass-backwards to create a "performance" version of the BRZ and NOT do so via turbocharging. These days MPGs are everything and manufacturers are very pressured into this. Turbocharging doesnt have to be the lag-filled, turbo bigger-than-your-house methodology this forum thinks it is.  |
Exactly. Everyone is jumping on the 4-cylinder turbo engine bandwagon these days. There are so many of them now that it's crazy. VW/Audi was the pioneer and now everyone else is in the game as well.
Blame it on CAFE or whatever, but there's just no better way to get the combination of power/torque & fuel economy out of an engine than to slap a turbo on it.