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Originally Posted by Muscle Master
I't does have a turbocharge 1.4 don't it  |
Maybe. One of GM's recently 'postponed' projects was a North American facility to produce this powerplant, leaving only the European assembly line for the same meaning that GM will have to pay for the cost of importation on top of the European assembly site making the engine notably more expensive to build compared to assembly anywhere in North America. And of course, one site of assembly limits availability, particularly so when you consider that the 1.4L turbo will be the sole engine offered in the Volt.
Unless GM manages to reverse those cancelled plans for US assembly I would suspect a much higher percentage of the more conventional Ecotec four cylinders we already have and a much lower percentage of the newer 2.4L GTDi four than GM initially planned.