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I've always found it very interesting why people think that because, from any given manufacturer, if an engine has a smaller displacement, but more power output, it's somehow "better"?
If two engines have the same horsepower, fuel economy, NVH, and one is a 4L and one is a 2L, what the heck makes people think the 2L is "better"? I always hear the argument that it is more "efficient". What the heck does that mean? If two engines get the same fuel economy, how is the smaller one more efficient? When I hear that an engine is smaller, all I think is its packed with more useless technology that the manufacturer claims does this and that, yet IMO, those are just more things to go wrong. I really fail to see the point of this trend to make engines small, yet powerful.
Give me the bigger engine (that often runs on regular, not premium) anyday.
Smaller is lighter perhaps.