2010 International Engines Of The Year ANNOUNCED, Can You Guess Who Won?

4 bmw, 1 mercedes, 1 audi, 1 volkwagen...surprise! the germans dominant once again.

2 Toyota powertrains:
- Hybrid (1.5 or 1.8 petrol-electric: '99, '00, '04, '05, '06, '08, '10
- Sub 1 liter (1.0 petrol 4 or 3 cylinder): '99, '07, '08, '09, '10
To win one Year is only fashion, where the engine is only vogue.
But to have continuous win in a massproduct categories, it is real "performance". The turbo/compressor engine design is not so sofisticated. Lancia have implemented this technology in Delta rally car in early '80-s
The real engineering is to develop cheap and sophisticated massproduct or the real hybrids. Frankly speaking only Toyota is capable for this, all others are only follower or making poor copies.
The other special engines are only fun for 365 days.

lolol

How does the Toyota Prius beat the BMW 2-LITRE TWIN-TURBO DIESEL for greenest engine? I'll take the BMW's engine any day.

Nobody can build a sophisticated hybrid system like Toyota.
The twinturbo diesels and turbo/kompressors petrols are the today dinosaurs. This engines will disappear soon.
BMW engineers can not copy Toyota. They knowledge is enough to design mild hybrids - copy of Honda IMA 20 HP :-) - or a completely missleading hybrids like X6. :-(
The real engineering does not mean putting two-three-four-five-six turbos and kompressors. Even a small hot-rod company can make similar engines, and their cars are much nicer than the "clever multiturbo" BMW-s.
AMG 6.2???? Lexus LS600h, hybrid AWD and full option. Still remain some coins for a Caterham or Westfield.

deepwater, pull your head out of the Toyota/Honda kool-aid. The Honda CRZ engine is a complete failure: 35mpg and 0-60 in 9.5 seconds?? A BMW 4 cylinder diesel can beat both of those numbers with aplomb.

Yes, Toyota has reliable engines before 2002, but since then, even CEO Toyoda himself has admitted that they were cutting corners to increase profit and he has now fired those executives.

Be a little objective here will you?

I would hardly call the Prius a sophisticated hybrid system,lol there have been way better designs in hybrid configurations, and these engines like BMW did already out perform the hybrid in economy without sacrificing economy, HP is not the enemy here, just because it has almost three times the power of the Prius and gets equal or better mileage doesn't make it evil.

Best performance engine is the only category that I do care and the winner is AMG 6.2...

Audi is offering the 5 cylinder again?!? When did this happen?!?

Have you been in a coma ?

The TT RS runs a 2.5 L 5 Cyl

Hi quizz,

do you know about Atkinson cycle, NOx and particle emission? Do you know the poison of diesel engines? I do not think so. Do you know that BMW diesel enginedevelompent was coming from MAN?
BMW best engines are only in R 1200 GS AM 2006-2009. My feeling is that you shall use google to find, what I'm talking about.

Do you know about Poisonous Battery Chemicals ?

Do you know about the Fantastically Inefficient processes that the manufacture of a Hybrid entails when compared to the manufacture of a regular IC vehicle.
{Add Battery and Electric Motor components Mining, Refinement & Build Emissions to total of Hybrids}

Do you know that Hybrids can not just be scrapped like normal vehicles when it has outlived its usefulness ?

It has to be stripped of all its poisonous chemicals & Batteries first.

Hi I95SPEEDINGTICKETS,

you are living in the 19th century. The hybrid vehicle is less complex than any other conventional vehicles. The Toyota & Lexus hybrid system contain only one or two planetary gear sets, lean petrol Atkinson engine, motor generator and electric motor.
The inverter and the battery production using recycled or lean harmful materials.
Despite this, the normal powertrains - with same performance - are using 4x or 5x more parts. This results more complexity and more energy for production.
The unique materials used for inverters and in the batteries are less mass than in the current "high tech" petrol and diesle engines. The "nowadays" petrols and diesels made from special aluminium and poision metal components. The common rail systems contain special alloys, the turbo chargers made from special metal composits in order to resist high temperature and extreme rotation. The amont of these materials are much more than in the hybrids. The high power engines are using special and bigger catalyc converters. And this bigger catalics contain more special materials than the catalics used in Atkinson petrols.
Mining of special materials - for engine blocks, cylindre heads, turbos and bigger catalycs - are also harmful.
In other hand the high power is result of high gas pressure in the cylinder. This means high emission of NOx. And NOx is more dangerous poison than the metals used in inverters. The metals in inverter can be collect controlled, but NOx not.
I'm not hybrid fan, but the facts are facts. Every automaker is developing hybrids, no exemtpion.