– The self-appointed smart set think the internal-combustion engine is on its last legs, but not Mercedes-Benz. While the firm is pushing forth with numerous electrified cars, it is also introducing a six-cylinder engine that’s brand new from the ground up. And it returns to the classic six-cylinders-in-a-row layout that Mercedes abandoned two decades ago […]
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Nine Things You Must Know about the New Mercedes Inline-Six
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Aston Martin Vantage might get a Mercedes inline-six
Aston Martin has turned its eye to the inline six-cylinder engine Mercedes-Benz installs in the CLS 53. The British carmaker uses an AMG-sourced 4.0-liter V8 for the DB11 and the Vantage, which produces 503 horsepower and 505 pound-feet of torque in the latter coupe. Aston Martin hasn’t said anything about whether or when it would […]
Toyota Supra gets turbocharged inline-six, no manual transmission
The 2018 Geneva Motor Show finally brought us the long awaited return of the Toyota Supra, sort of. Initials details are scarce, but a roundtable with Toyota engineer Tetsuya Tada — the man behind both the Supra and the Toyota 86 — revealed a number of new details, both good and bad. The Supra will […]
Test-driving the new Mercedes-Benz inline-six engine | Straight but not narrow
Mercedes-Benz was once enamored of the straight-six gasoline-powered engine. It was a stalwart in the brand’s lineup, from the 3.9-liter supercharged M836 motor that powered its luxurious and sporty sedans in the mid-1920s until the 3.0-liter DOHC unit used in the W202 C-Class at the tail end of the 20th century. The straight-six was abandoned […]
