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Originally Posted by jdenotter
Its funny how people nowadays think VVT is so new and cool. In all reality honda has been doing variable timing since the early 90s. So when I see a company talk about VVT im not impressed.
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The concept of VVT dates back to steam engines, was used in aircraft in the 1920's and its been in cars for about 30 years. Honda's v-tech is a lot like Ford's Ecoboost in so much as they both have a catchy name and people forget that other manufacturers did the same thing earlier.
On a barely related tech-fascination/history note ... I find it funny when people talk about OHV engines as being old, implying that OHC is somehow new. They're both roughly a century old, with OHV being maybe a decade older than OHC.