Subaru Motor Takes IEOTY Award

Post by **complacent** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:06 pm

teh freaking article

Suby motor beats out teh Bimmer workhorse. w00t!

Post by **Sabre** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:13 pm

w00t

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A New Name on the Rostrum:
A new name was added this year to the select list of only 11 manufacturers that have won awards in the Engine of the Year competition since it was launched in 1999: Japanese carmaker Subaru has won its first-ever IEOTY trophy in the 2.0-liter to 2.5-liter class with the new 2.5-liter turbo that powers the 2006 Impreza WRX, among others.

Subaru's excellent turbocharged "flat-four" or "boxer" engine narrowly edged out a multiple winner in this category: BMW's ever-improving 2.5-liter inline six-cylinder engine. Their respective scores were 155 and 153 points.

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:48 pm

how long as that BMW inline 6 been in production? that motor has been around almost as long as the Chevy small block...

for that matter, I wonder how far back the Subaru 2.0/2.5 can trace it's lineage?

Post by **Sabre** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:54 pm

Dunno, but I can tell you I have mad respect for inline 6's. The one in my jeep was a work horse.

Cereb Daithi · Post by **Cereb Daithi** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:59 pm

this makes me feel warm and fuzzy. i got in a fight with an engineer over the boxer engine.. he claims it would shake itself to pieces after about 20k miles and that my engine was crap.... i told him he was an idiot.. now i have the international motor community backing me

sirwilliam · Post by **sirwilliam** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:26 pm

Cereb Daithi wrote:this makes me feel warm and fuzzy. i got in a fight with an engineer over the boxer engine.. he claims it would shake itself to pieces after about 20k miles and that my engine was crap.... i told him he was an idiot.. now i have the international motor community backing me

And that engineer is an idiot!

Mr Kleen · Post by **Mr Kleen** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:02 pm

are you talking about a SOUND engineer?