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Originally Posted by DGthe3
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.
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And then they call the pushrod outdated.
