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Re: CAFE standards
Posted by Erik919kt [Email] (more from Erik919kt) on Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:48:35
In Reply to: CAFE standards, A1-turbo, Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:06:44
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I don't think the article is suggesting that the current expansion of turbo use today is due to Saab. It's saying that in Sweden, the same demand for fuel efficiency was present "back in the day," as is present now in the rest of the world. Swedes, the article says, were environmentally conscious early on. Saab is credited with commercializing the use of turbocharging and developing technology that made turbocharging more feasible, such as the wastegate and APC (although the article doesn't quite understand what APC really was).
The article also seems to take the stance that the idea of pairing a smaller engine with a turbo was more typical of Saab's approach than it was for others. While the Corvair, for example, was a small 6-cyl engine, by the standards of its day, GM didn't come up with an even smaller, turbocharged engine for the Corvair Spyder. They just turbocharged the existing engine. So if you want to look for the ancestor of the current trend of turbocharging small engines, Saab was it. I think that's what the article is getting at.
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