Showing posts with label Engine Displacement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engine Displacement. Show all posts

Friday, August 15, 2014

Engine Displacement and Fuel Economy

The largest engines fitted onto cars have a displacement of between 6.5 to 8.4 liters. The one you need, however, is more or less half the amount.

While engine displacement is an acceptable indication of power, it's also a measure of fuel economy. If the biggest engine in the market, the V10 in an SRT Viper supercar, has an 8.4-liter displacement, it means it would consume around 8.4 liters of gas in one cycle. Each of its ten cylinders would eat up 0.84 liters or 84 cc of fuel.