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I do believe that the future of ICE powered cars will be very small highly boosted gas engines as part of a hybrid system. Imagine your civic with a 500cc turbo engine and a fairly stout electric motor. It would cruise on the ICE at pretty high load into the boost a bit and use the electric assist when more power was needed. Honda already has a 500cc V-twin on the shelf. It is 300+ years old and could surely use updating but I would think this would be a fair bit more efficient than say the 900 cc 3 from the first insight.
Plus a 90 V twin sounds a damn sight cooler than an inline 3.
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