The tricks up my sleeve... Methods I may implement for better FE.

[SVOboy]

Originally Posted by Ryland

isn't VW's TSI engine a direct injection gas engine? from what I was reading about a while back that was part of what made it more efficent, and why it's taken this long for it to be made, that direct injection of gasoline in to a combustion chamber has it's own set of problems.
I think it would be great if someone like honda came out with something like a 1 liter turbo charged v-tec engine to compeat what VW is doing.

Honda is reluctant to use turbos for a few reasons, the main one seeming to be that they make engine well enough without them (which is something I wouldn't be able to say about VW).

It is hard to compare honda and vw for a few reasons. Honda builds hybrids where VW doesn't. VW just doesn't want to, . VW uses diesel where Honda is new to the market (but then VW's diesels are the dirtiest things on the road, and Honda's late entry into the diesel market should differ substantially on this point).

But, more importantly, Honda does build the kind of small car that you're thinking of. However, like VW, it won't release it in the US,