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Originally Posted by Hersbird
I just don't think any turbo gas motor is going to go down in history as a pillar of long term reliability.
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I remember Volkswagen claimed in 2003 that it would switch its entire range to turbocharged engines within a timeframe that AFAIK is already gone. Yet there are still some countries where the Volkswagen T-Cross supplied from Brazil is fitted with a 1.6L naturally-aspirated engine, even though in the local market it gets either a 3-cyl 1.0L or a 4-cyl 1.4L turbocharged engines. Even though a lot of failures of 1.0 TSI engines is related to remapping, and in some countries such as Bolivia and Mexico the naturally-aspirated 1.6 MSI prevailed in part due to claims that a 1.0L turbocharged engine would struggle with turbo-lag, I'm sure reliability and some degree of dumbproofing were the reasons why the 1.6 MSI is fitted to most export-bound Brazilian versions of the T-Cross.