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From: john on 22 Apr 2010 21:59
http://wardsauto.com/home/respectable_4-cyl_engine_100421/

The Ward’s 10 Best Engines competition has recognized outstanding
powertrain development for 16 years. This month, Ward’s explores the
history of GM’s direct-injection 2.4L Ecotec I-4.

A quick count of this year’s 10 Best Engines award winners reveals no
fewer than six 4-bangers: two turbocharged, two HEVs, one diesel and
even one naturally aspirated, workaday 4-cyl. engine – General Motors
Co.’s 2.4L Ecotec.

“In the Equinox,” Ward’s editors raved, “this engine never fails to
delight with ready throttle response and strong mid-range
acceleration.”

Several were “astonished to achieve 30 mpg (7.8L/100 km) in the
Equinox in mixed driving, without babying it.” And we’ll bet some, if
they had not known it was a 4-cyl., might have mistaken it for a V-6
as many other reviewers have.

From: cuhulin on 23 Apr 2010 20:18
Perhaps not high volume, but Fully Respectable to me anyway, Model T
Ford and the old World War Two era Jeep engines, Willys and Ford
Jeeps.General George S. Patton and Dwight David Eisenhower said without
the Jeeps (and the Bulldozers and C-130 Aircraft and the Tanks) we
couldn't have won World War Two.
cuhulin

From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 23 Apr 2010 23:26
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:59:03 -0700, john wrote:

> http://wardsauto.com/home/respectable_4-cyl_engine_100421/
>
> The Ward's 10 Best Engines competition has recognized outstanding
> powertrain development for 16 years. This month, Ward's explores the
> history of GM's direct-injection 2.4L Ecotec I-4.

What about the Toyota 1.8L used in the Celica GTS that puts out the same
HP in a smaller package? It's built on a platform that's been around since
the 1967 Toyota 2000 GT using Yamaha heads, and has been used around the
world in various cars and forms since?

BTW, it's one of the most reliable engine series around.


From: cuhulin on 24 Apr 2010 10:59
I did mean the DC-3.Eisenhower said Dakotas.
http://www.dc3history.org/dc2.htm

I saw Puff the Magic Dragon when I was in Vietnam.
cuhulin

From: hls on 25 Apr 2010 12:18

"Nate Nagel" <njnagel(a)roosters.net> wrote in message
>> That will be a first for GM...
>
> Sounds a lot like the VW turbo motor... based on an early 70's design...
> not saying that the GM motor isn't good (I have no experience with it)
> but there have been excellent four-poppers available for decades.
>
> nate

True, there have been, Nate, but I cant remember GM making
any of them.
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