Ferrari wins International Engine of the Year

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Ferrari wins engine of the year


Performance powerplants dominate annual engineering awards.


Stephen Ottley
2 June, 2016




Ferrari's 488 GTB. Photo: Supplied


Ferrari has cleaned up at the International Engine of the Year Awards overnight, claiming three category wins with its all-new 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8.

The 492kW engine powers the new 488 GTB and 488 Spider and won over a jury of 63 international motoring journalists with its combination of performance and efficiency.



The 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8 found in the Ferrari 488. Photo: Lorenzo Marcinno


Ferrari's turbo V8 not only won the overall Engine of the Year category is also won best New Engine, Performance Engine and best engine between 3.0- and 4.0-litres.

"It's a giant leap forward for turbocharged engines in terms of efficiency, performance and flexibility," said Graham Johnson, co-chairman of the International Engine of the Year Awards. "It truly is the best engine in production today and will forever be remembered as one of the all-time greats."

It is the first engine in more than a decade to claim the top prize to feature more than six-cylinders. For the past eight years the award has been won by a succession of four-cylinder motors.

But it wasn't just the V8 that won Ferrari a gong, the Italian company also claimed the Above 4.0-litre category with its 6.3-litre V12 from the F12 TdF; the only non-turbocharged engine to win a prize.

It was the year of performance engines with six of the eight categories won by engines that power sports cars, including the 1.4 to 1.8-litre category that was claimed by the 1.5-litre three-cylinder petrol hybrid powertrain from the BMW i8.

Porsche's new 3.0-litre twin-turbo flat-six for its updated 911 took out the 2.5 to 3.0-litre class, Audi's 2.5-litre five-cylinder turbo from the RS3 and RSQ3 took out the 2.0 to 2.5-litre award and the Mercedes-AMG 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo from its '45' range of models took out the 1.8 to 2.0-litre prize.

At the other end of the spectrum the Below 1.0-litre category was taken out by Ford's 1.0-litre three-cylinder EcoBoost engine from the Fiesta and Peugeot-Citroen's 1.2-litre three-pot won the 1.0-1.4-litre category.


International Engine of the Year winners


Below 1.0-litre: Ford 1.0-litre three-cylinder turbo petrol

1.0 to 1.4-litres: Peugeot-Citroen 1.2-litre three-cylinder turbo petrol

1.4 to 1.8-litres: BMW 1.5-litre three-cylinder turbo petrol hybrid

1.8 to 2.0-litres: Mercedes-AMG 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol

2.0 to 2.5-litres: Audi 2.5-litre five-cylinder turbo petrol

2.5 to 3.0-litres: Porsche 3.0-litre six-cylinder twin-turbo petrol

3.0 to 4.0-litres: Ferrari 3.9-litre eight-cylinder twin-turbo petrol

Above 4.0-litres: Ferrari 6.3-litre V12 petrol

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Official Web Site:

http://www.ukipme.com/engineoftheyear/


Previous Winners:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern...ne_of_the_Year