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Originally Posted by Isaac Zackary
Thanks! I feel exactly the same way! 
It never made sense to me to say that I drive a motorized vehicle, that I registered at the Department of Motor Vehicles, that may even be called a "motorcycle" or "motorhome" or "motorboat", and then say that it doesn't have a motor, it's an engine.  |
On a tangent, I've read somewhere that turbochargers are a type of supercharger, but not all superchargers are turbochargers. Seems strange and confusing considering turbo is always referred to as exhaust-driven, and super is always referred to as crank-driven.
A quote from history of turbocharging and supercharging:
"It wasn’t until about 1912 that Dr. Alfred J. Büchi of
Switzerland developed the first exhaust-driven supercharger."