Automakers prefer even-numbered engines, inline 4s, inline 6s, v6s, etc. However, even today, five-cylinder engines still have a place on the auto market. Here are the best cars with an Inline 5. Mercedes Benz D is the pioneer of five-cylinder engines. The Benz D 3.
The OM proved so reliable that Mercedes continued production for 17 years! Although the diesel 3. With horsepower under the hood, from the 2. The performance wasn't the only thing that set the Audi TT RS apart from the crowd, though; The raspy sound, resembling a "baby" V10, was the music to every car enthusiast ears. Mark 2 Ford Focus RS was produced from to , and even today, this Europe-only beast is considered to be one of the most exceptional FWD vehicles ever.
The Focus RS Mk2 came with a 2. Automakers must sell a certain number of vehicles in order to profit, and in today's highly competitive automotive market, that's not easy to accomplish. Covering the expenses of developing an inline five-cylinder engine would cut into auto manufacturers' earnings.
The inline five-cylinder engines have brought success to those automakers that were willing to take the risk; However, the demand for such an engine isn't high. The straight-five offers more displacement than a straight-four, and it's more compact than a straight-six or a v6. No matter how much we love the purring Inline fives, there is only a small portion of the market for such a narrow use.
The Ford Duratec in-line 5 is actually a Volvo engine as Ford owned Volvo at that point and they had stopped using the 2. It was also in a version of the Smax albeit with a little less power! You beat me too it it's the same engine you will find in pretty much all of the similar yeared Volvo's badged as a T5 even though it's the BT3 engine.
Nice article. For people who like tuning cars, the Audi 5 cylinder is an amazing starting platform. I had a Volvo C30 T5 back in and that 2. Smooth, hugely torquey, it sounded absolutely amazing with a cat back, and it was totally bulletproof. I wish there were more of them. FIAT had great ones - petrol 2. Tim Rodie. These three currently are the only performance cars with a five-cylinder engine. General Motors experimented with a V-5 diesel in ; intended for Oldsmobile, it instead ended up in a museum.
Another two decades would pass before the company brought to market its first five-cylinder—a gasoline inline-five, derived from the Vortec six that debuted in the Chevrolet TrailBlazer. The 3. A bored-out 3. But even with the extra displacement, the five-cylinder Humvee was so slow we wondered whether GM engineers had ever driven it on public roads.
The reincarnated pickups use a 2. Naturally aspirated, the five-cylinder turned out horsepower; besides the Coupe, it also appeared in the Bravo and Brava hatchbacks, plus the Marea sedan. Its horsepower was enough to make the Fiat one of the fastest front-drive cars of the day. Less powerful variants of the 2. By , the final Focus RS bristled with horsepower and lb-ft.
Only were built. Our little Ford Ranger pickup departed in , but the rest of the world was treated to an all-new Ranger, and with it came a new engine option, the 3. Renamed Power Stroke and fitted with selective catalytic reduction, our version put out slightly less power horsepower but more torque lb-ft. A Transit van so equipped handily won our diesel commercial-van comparison , with strong acceleration and good fuel economy.
The 2. In , it generated horsepower and lb-ft of torque, both substantial increases over the previous engine. A hp version graced the U. Sprinter vans initially sold as Dodges starting in In fact, it lived on into the Ford era.
The Td5 replaced a 2. With between and horsepower and to lb-ft of torque, the Td5 also came with electronic engine mapping by Lucas—which, incredibly, has made the Td5 a reliable workhorse. Defender models continued to use the Td5 until Two of our staffers own vintage Benz diesels with the Mercedes 3.
Making its debut in the D, the OM inline-five diesel was the first of its kind in a passenger car and helped cement the reputation of Mercedes diesel engines as practically unbreakable. But Mercedes made living with a diesel a little easier, thanks to a pneumatic shutoff that let drivers twist the ignition key to turn off the car instead of pulling a separate lever.
In , Mercedes slipped the five in its CD coupe to temper U. Recognizing the American thirst for power, Mercedes turbocharged the engine specifically for our market, creating the hp D 2. By , the Wgeneration Mercedes E featured a bored-out 2. This hp engine would show up in the first Sprinter vans between and ; eventually, the G-wagen got this five, too. Not only is the engine completely indestructible, but it's capable of producing masses of power. Volkswagen was having quite a bit of fun with their VR6 engine during the late 90s and early s.
As if sticking it into just about every single one of their and their subsidiaries' cars wasn't enough, they chopped off one of the engine's cylinders, leaving five. This resulted in the V5 and VR5 engines, which found their way into everything from the Mk4 Golf to the Passat, but we're singling out the Jetta here.
This 2. Still, the huge modding potential and incredible exhaust note should more than make up for that. Despite emissions regulations getting stricter and stricter globally, Audi is still persistently putting their heroic I5 engine into a few of their RS models.
The most notable one of these is the RS3, and to say that it's a pocket rocket would be an understatement. The RS3 was forbidden fruit in North America for a while, until the sedan version was officially put on sale in As mentioned previously, it uses a 2. Before the new Mercedes A45 S, this was easily the most powerful hot hatch in history, and Quattro meant that it was one of the best to drive as well.
The two-seat sports car underdog has been with us for a while now, and with sports car sales declining fast, it's pretty obvious that it'll be killed off soon.
Quattro is standard, and so is a 7-speed S-tronic DCT. It's a real shame that Audi will be killing off the TT soon, as most journalists agree that the TT RS' performance begs the question; why would you ever need a supercar? To most people, the Fiat Stilo was a decent, well-rounded family hatchback that was a great success in Europe throughout its 9-year production run.
What some may not know is that Fiat put together a hot hatch version of the Stilo, fittingly wearing the Abarth badge. Under the hood was a 2. In this application, it made hp, which gave the Stilo a surprising amount of speed. Cornering wasn't the greatest, but it was still big fun. Why so high on the list? They're comically cheap on the used market now.
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