Direct Injection – Finally!

Car & Driver (USA), and Motor Trend have reported that Honda has announced a range of Direct Injection (DI) engines, ranging from small (1.3) to big (well, big for Honda) 3.5l. Wait – that’s not all!

The diesel engine food pyramid - or something like that

A new smaller turbo diesel that is all alloy in construction (light weight) may replace the 2.2l that, umm, we never got. New CVT’s with rubber bands that aren’t quite as rubbery, and even a 7 speed dual clutch auto without any rubber bands.

But wait, there’s even more! A new hybrid coupling and torque vectoring system that uses the hybrid electric motors which allow varying degrees of deceleration. Previously torque vectoring could only apply to accelerative forces apparently (however this flies in the face of dynamic stability control systems as I understand them with the use of brakes…). Honda says it’s better, so it might well be, however, hybrid is something I’m wary of as an over complicated, over weight way of achieving diesel like economy.