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Originally Posted by Bob Denman
It's just a matter of scaling it up or down: for the application...  |
Ok, let’s expand on this.
Your Smart car weighs about 1/10th as much as a large Class A, yet you don’t get 10 times the fuel economy on the highway. I’d say motorhomes are pretty good by comparison already.
Given the weight difference, would you be willing to scale the engine in your Smart car down to +/- 700 cc and without turbos? With maybe 35 HP?
I’d bet no, because we can’t scale down human expectations. Each application has to be evaluated on its own. By the way, 35 HP works at an old VW Beetle level of performance, but is no longer acceptable.
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