Small turbocharged engines fuel economy

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Originally Posted by CAT600

Its common knowledge that Mitsubishi and Subaru targeted R34 performance (it was the benchmark) for many years... yes Nissans premium car was more expensive but the point is it hasnt been bettered in Japan, even the LFA at 3 times the price is less of a performance package total. If you did this exercise in its native environment (where you would have around 30-40K to play with) the STi would have no chance but the superior Evo would go close, Inside line did this a while back with the older 2009 GT-R:

Well bugger me. I drove a AWD turbo Subaru (Liberty RS and WRX) for 15 years and I never realised they benchmarked themselves on the GTR. I thought they were interested in winning rally's thus benchmarking them on the other rally cars. And my comment was never about the GTR to begin with (I really don't care about the GTR). My Nissan comment was in relation to making a turbo charged diesel engine last.

Originally Posted by CAT600

Regardless, the argument is about smaller displacement and turbos and as far as economy goes you cant beat them.

Daniel

Correct.