Echoing others, I see nothing wrong with small displacement turbo engines. We've seen plenty of examples where folks and manufactures were just throwing turbos on poorly developed/tuned engines and blowing them up so long as the engine was developed from the ground up with the intent of forced induction. We've come across the point in technology where automatics are better than manuals for performance and fuel economy so it shouldn't be a surprise that turbo'd engines are developing as well.
Some older turbo'd cars may not have fail safes that N/A engines may not experience; ie: mashing the pedal when the engine is cold or mashing the throttle at low RPMs/high loads. I just play it safe and assume all turbo engines are less tolerant of stupidity.
Some older turbo'd cars may not have fail safes that N/A engines may not experience; ie: mashing the pedal when the engine is cold or mashing the throttle at low RPMs/high loads. I just play it safe and assume all turbo engines are less tolerant of stupidity.
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