After learning the names of the ’10 Best Engines’,  the enlisted just have to wait for the start of the next Auto Show in  Detroit for the award ceremony. As every year the American journal  Ward’s Automotive specializes unveiled its annual list of the best  engines in 2011. Every year, almost 20, Ward’s journalists announce  what, in their opinion, the best engines in the coming year to be  mentioned in a spectacular Top Ten: ie “‘s 10 Best Engine Award 2011.”
So a few days of the end 2010, the nominations for the 2011 models  and were released between 38 and newer models who took part in the race,  it was determined the 10 Best Engines, the result is not surprising,  since it is consistent the diversity of cars involved.
And for the first time in the history of the contest the results  reflect a renewal so big with only two models and six repeating their  participation completely new winners.
The decrease in the size and engine displacement does not mean a  reduction in power, the era of the big V8 engines fall behind, leaving  these machines for competing cars or very specific niches.
In this 4-cylinder engines have the performance of a V6 while the  six-cylinder equal to eight, so do not be surprised the power or torque,  thanks to turbochargers and compressors that are more efficient  combustion with that energy loss is reduced.
Different
It should be noted that 2011 will be a historic year for Ward’s,  because among the winners of the Award’s 10 Best Engine “included the  first ever appointed electric motors, the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan  Leaf. Was once again the machine diesel Volkswagen Jetta TDI (finalist  last year), and large machines like the 5.0 liter V8 Ford Mustang 2011,  and the Hyundai Genesis. In addition, attracting a new protagonist: the  newly released 3.6-liter V6 Chrysler Penastar beginning to be starring  with awards and accolades.
To be eligible for competition, ie belong to the list of competitors,  “Ward’s 10 Best Engines”, the car must cost less than $ 55 000 in the  U.S. and the engine had to be already available in the first quarter of  2011.
To select the winners, during October and November, the editors of  Ward’s Automotive tested vehicles of different brands in mixed urban  cycle around the Detroit metropolitan area, which assessed according to  their power, fuel economy, noise , vibration, torque, refinement and  technological relevance, also clear from the comparison of data.
Electrical
Electric vehicles arrived, and they did to stay, so it is not  surprising that among the 10 best engines of 2011 two units are powered  by electricity: Leaf Nissan and the Chevrolet Volt.
How cars will become more common, Nissan Leaf, the first Model 100  percent power and mass production of Japan’s home, and was recognized as  the European Car of the Year (COTY 2011), while Chevrolet Volt, was his  own with the publication Motor Trend and the “Green Car of the Year  2011″ from the Los Angeles Auto Show in North America. This, in a clear  way of changing technologies and new generations of cars in which the  power supply will be gradually replaced by electricity in exchange for  the gradual disuse of fossil fuels.
So Ward’s only corroborates the importance that the power is to the  automotive world, with its choice, that if the total of 10 “Best  Engines”, two of which correspond to present 100 percent power as in the  case of Nissan Leaf or Extended Range Electric, as the little 1.4-liter  engine that recharges the batteries for the Chevrolet Volt to extend  their autonomy.
      
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