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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

While consumer preferences have trended toward larger automobiles of late, it’s actually the United States’ regulatory landscape that has been steering us toward gargantuan vehicles. In the 1960s, Americans were enjoying cheap gasoline and everyday automobiles boasting some of the largest engines ever manufactured.

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Lexus RC F makes its European debut at Geneva; V8 with Otto-Atkinson cycle

Green Car Congress

The notion of combining the Atkinson cycle at part loads with the Otto cycle at full loads stretches back more than 30 years to a 1982 paper by a team of researchers from Tel-Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Technology. In a 1995 paper, Boggs et al. from Ford tested a modified 1.6L The Lexus 5.0-liter Bassett, S.

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