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Volvo Terror is a Turbocharged Tractor that will Knock Your Socks Off
It will burn rubber, do donuts, drift on the field and at the same time, plow your farm; meet the Volvo Terror, an old tractor from the middle of the last century that has been outfitted with a Volvo-sourced B21ET turbocharged petrol engine. The B21ET belongs to Volvo's Redblock gasoline engine series and was used on cars like the 240. In factory form, the 2.1-liter turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine developed 155hp (157PS). Whether the engine found in the tractor is completely stock or has been upgraded, remains unknown.
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Volvo Developing New 3-cylinder With Up To 180hp
Downsizing is, according to automakers, the only way for the petrol engine to meet the ever-tightening CO2 emissions regulations. Volvo announced that it’s currently developing a lightweight 3-cylinder that will join the 4-cylinders in the Drive-E...
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Volvo's All-new Vea Four-cylinder Turbo Engines Enter Production
Marking an important milestone in the development of its brand new VEA (Volvo Engine Architecture) family of four-cylinder turbocharged gasoline and diesel powerplants, Volvo announced today that the first engine variants started production at the company's...
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Really, You Didn’t See It Coming?
We suppose tractor-pulling competitions can be fun for some people but they can also be dangerous if someone gets carried away. That someone happened to be the driver of a red tractor that was involved in a mechanical tug of war with a fellow owner...
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Bmw Reportedly Working On 1.3-liter And 1.8-liter Turbo Engines With 163 To 321hp
It's a rumor we've been hearing about since the beginning of the decade; BMW's turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engines, yet up until now, the only small capacity turbo unit we've seen from the Bavarian group is the MINI's 1.6-liter...
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Volvo S60 Sports Sedan Concept: First Official Photograph
Swedish automaker Volvo is offering us our first glimpse of the S60 Concept car ahead of the sports sedan's official debut at the Detroit Motor Show in early January 2009. The four-door-coupe concept's goal is to give us an indication of what...
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