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There are all kinds of tradeoffs you can make with regards to power output, size, weight, time to market, and cost for an engine for a given vehicle. Also, wha
by ansible 9y ago
There are all kinds of tradeoffs you can make with regards to power output, size, weight, time to market, and cost for an engine for a given vehicle. Also, what sells in one market (in the case of the Smart, Europe) may not work so well in another market (USA). IIRC, a lot of the Smarts back then (this was 10 years ago approximately) were diesel, which wasn't going to work in the North American market either.