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Originally Posted by mkoesel
Due to EU7, the head of Porsche Motorsport believes the answer is "yes".
https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/big...coming-for-911
"I expect 20 percent more displacement on average for these EU7-capable engines. Many manufacturers will jump from four to six, or from six to eight [cylinders]." |
More likely a maybe.
“This new regulation is really difficult to fulfil because we will have different cold start emissions side and bigger catalytic converters. When I'm talking bigger, I'm talking a factor of three to four times more, so there will be a small chemical industrial factory in the car to really control this," he says.
Packaging is going to be an issue and automakers want to be able to sell powertrains world wide so that means engines which are compliant in more than one market.