Why not 1.4 turbos are a going to be a very compact unit meaning that they will be less expensive to produce in material costs. all this green eco world sortve stuff is driving small engines to be the future of the car.
Shame the ibiza wont get it.
Why not 1.4 turbos are a going to be a very compact unit meaning that they will be less expensive to produce in material costs. all this green eco world sortve stuff is driving small engines to be the future of the car.
The 1.4 twincharger is expensive to produce iirc and a 1.4 turbo with 180hp will have quite a bit of lag, and be sorta unrefined.
Plus next gen ibiza should have around 200hp.
The article about 4wd above is misleading. The only companies to use this platform with 4wd will be audi and VW.
Audi always do 4wd and VW will apply to their cross polo model. Seat and Skoda will not utilize 4WD, based on their current plans.
So the supercharger means it should be even less laggy than running 2 turbos even.
But VAG also used to sell a 100hp 1.4 16v. So double thats power and you will get 200hp.
But then look at the 20v engine in the current Cupra. That is tunable to over 500hp which is more than double the power it started with. So don't be to confident.
I love this aerokit. Makes the 5 door more appeling
Could see the Fabia Scout being offered with it as well...
Two turbos should effectively destroy any noticeable lag otherwise there would be no point having two turbos.
Audi use just 1 turbo on their 1.4 unit whilst vw utilise a supercharger and turbo. However a vw boss said that the 1.4 twincharger in 170hp form was costly and unreliable.
So I would rule out a twincharged engine for the cupra.
As for the audi version well a 1.4 turbo with 180hp would be alot to ask for and would have turbo lag.
Also SEAT will give the new cupra a power boost anyway. Were looking at around 200hp.
Im not too happy about this bodykit. It has too many bocanegra styling cues in it and therefore I worry it will look too similair to the cupra.