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The 4-6-8 thing failed due to bad design. The new systems work well and improve the fuel economy. they do this by only shutting down the cylinders while at a steady low load, like cruising on the highway at a sustained speed. Honda has this with some of their v6's, Chevy has it on their new v6 impala(my friend has one), and dodge has it as well. There may be others, but those are the ones that come to mind. In my opinion, if you have to have the ability to tow a bajillion punds and have 300 horses, good for you, but it seems dumb to be cruisin on the highway to work in a behemoth doing 65mph and getting 14mpg when the little car next to you is doing the exact same thing and getting 30mpg. Why not only use the power when you need it? More companies should do this. Instead we have xfe versions of suvs now that get +1 mpg. Yeah, on big vehicles every mpg counts i know and its like a 7% increase, but why don't they just use their brains and design a variable displacement system so they gain 5 or 6 mpgs under no load and then have the powere when they need it? Sorry for my rant....I do that sometimes lol.
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