A SENIOR ENGINEER for Nissan has hinted that the Japanese manufacturer may return to turbocharging in the near future.

Nissan’s Tetsuya Takahashi told Motor Trend that the company’s Powertrain Engineering Division is already studying the feasibility of turbocharged engines for future models.

In the 1990s, Nissan mainly used turbocharged engines on its performance models like the 300ZX [...]

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Rumour has it that BMW is considering the development of a Euro-market high performance diesel variant of the X5, which will sit below the recently released X5 M.

What’s really interesting, however, is that BMW may end up fitting said vehicle with not one, not two, but three turbochargers. The more the merrier, I guess.

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When you’ve got a car that weighs slightly more than a pocketful of lint, you don’t need big power to get it moving in a hurry.

Try telling that to the lovable (but slightly bonkers) Germans at MTM.

They’ve gone and strapped a turbocharger to the KTM X-Bow’s VW-sourced 2.o litre four pot, slapped a new tune [...]

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If you’re ever feeling a little dumb, take solace in the fact that at least you didn’t cook up the masterpiece you see pictured above.

Unless of course you DID concoct this home-fabricated abomination, in which case you should probably just go ahead and book a vasectomy right now.

Here’s why muffler-mounting your turbos is a shithouse [...]

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car magazine has apparently stumbled upon the next-generation 1-Series’ spec sheet, revealing that the new model will be powered by a range of smaller, thriftier engines and make use of the latest twin-clutch gearbox technology.

The base model 116i will feature a turbocharged 1.3 litre petrol four, which will develop 101kW and have a six-speed manual [...]

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