📰 Auto News Ward’s 10 Best Engines for 2011

[Mook]

This year’s winners and the applications tested:

• 3.0L TFSI Supercharged DOHC V-6 (Audi S4)
• 3.0L N55 Turbocharged DOHC I-6 (BMW 335i)
• 1.6L Turbocharged DOHC I-4 (Mini Cooper S)
• 3.6L Pentastar DOHC V-6 (Dodge Avenger)
• 5.0L DOHC V-8 (Ford Mustang GT)
• 1.4L DOHC I-4/111kW Drive Motor (Chevrolet Volt)
• 5.0L Tau DOHC V-8 (Hyundai Genesis)
• 80kW AC Synchronous Electric Motor (Nissan Leaf)
• 2.0L DOHC I-4 Turbodiesel (Volkswagen Jetta TDI)
• 3.0L Turbocharged DOHC I-6 (Volvo S60)

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[Riski]

Dodge Avenger

 

[Mook]

was just the test car.

 

[Bru]

For 2011 that engine is widely used across the lineup, including the Dodge Challenger.

 

[Bru]

Just an FYI of how they evaluate these. I wish there was some more technical evaluation to it, though.

Ward’s editors spent October and November driving the vehicles in their routine daily commutes around metro Detroit and scored each engine based on power, technology, observed fuel economy and noise, vibration harshness. There was no instrumented testing.

 

[PANDA]

wat no 3800

 

[EmersonHart13]

Fuck yeah: 2.0L DOHC I-4 Turbodiesel (Volkswagen Jetta TDI)

 

[The Broken Regal]

wat no 3800

x2, this shit was rigged, rigged I tell ya

 

[SRT41320]

mopar FTW

 

[sickmint79]

lowest amount of bimmer powa in a while

 

[Stink Star]

I gotta take this with a grain of salt.... The BMW motor is known for a high rate of failure of fuel pumps. The mini motor has a high rate of timing chain problems, and the Tao V8 is regarded by almost all automotive journalists as having a strange power band, a lot down low and up high but not much in the middle.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

this is probably determined by the "greasing" of the testers by the manufacturers

 

[firemandan1700]

LSx > all

No report, test, or research is complete w/o the jesus of motors being #1 on every report lol

 

[Poopshinanigans]

once again my TDi motor is on there. I love that hunk of cast iron.

 

[THEHKP7M13]

LSx > all

No report, test, or research is complete w/o the jesus of motors being #1 on every report lol

Hell yeah something with LS architechture and HEMI should be on every top 10 list.

 

[firemandan1700]

Hell yeah something with LS architechture and HEMI should be on every top 10 list.

spot on

 

[Shibby50]

so the 5.0 v8 Genesis is really happening huh

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Since when is an electric motor an engine?

 

[smug]

Since when is an electric motor an engine?

 

[NetChemica]

Since when is an electric motor an engine?

It's not. That's why there are no electric motors up there.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

[*]80kW AC Synchronous Electric Motor (Nissan Leaf)

Am I mistaken in thinking the leaf is 100% electric?

 

[NetChemica]

Am I mistaken in thinking the leaf is 100% electric?

I'm an idiot, I missed that part. I thought you were talking about the Chevy Volt.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

So the leaf doesn't have an engine. What's good about the engine in the volt? This list is silly....

 

[NetChemica]

So the leaf doesn't have an engine. What's good about the engine in the volt? This list is silly....

They needed some diversity and have 10 different manufacturers on there. Seems like they put on the best motor that GM had to offer.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

They needed some diversity and have 10 different manufacturers on there. Seems like they put on the best motor that GM had to offer.

The mini's 1.6 turbo engine is made by BMW but I get your point. Would be a better list if real data was collected.