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Originally Posted by sgtsandman
All I can remember is the big turbo craze in the 80's. I don't think many of those engines lived to see the 90's. Not to mention most turbos that are around these days require premium fuel. Negating any fuel saving benefits the turbo gives. Granted, none of the above vehicles were ever meant to be fuel savers and a V-6 engine can be on hell of a beast. Time will tell how the power plants hold up.
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Turbo motors back in the 80s required premium fuel back then too. I had an 86 turbo toyota 4x4 that was very reliable. My supercharged mr2 was very reliable.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M12
My issue is the ecoturd, i dont think its worth a crap and ford seems to want to move to that compared to v8s