90 from 1.2 is without Turbo, my friend.
How does Skoda get 270 BHP from a 2.0 Petrol Vrs?
Logically, it implies 135 BHP/litre, so do the math.
120 BHP from a Turbo petrol is not huge.
YEar 2000 octy had 150 bhp from a 1.8 turbo petrol.
so that makes it 50bhp/600 cc = 100bhp from a 1.2.
Tata hasnt even beaten a 15 year old benchmark.
"best engine" my foot.
Don't you think the engineers at Tata Motors know all this simple math?
The point here is they can squeeze more power out of that tiny 1.2 engine. But who will pay for that extra power? Look at the competetion at which these engines are launced. Tell me apart from Honda Amaze (10 bhp more) which other engine is delivering more like you said 120 bhp?
Its all how they tune and how much power they want to pull it out from that so that it suits the budget, class in which it is launched.
For instance look at the engine of Aria earlier. It was generating 140 bhp. Now they are squeezing 150 bhp from the same engine? How would that be possible. You cannot simply generalize that the company is uncapable of doing it.
Agreed.
I have nowhere said that its a bad engine. Tata didnt have a good enough petrol engine at this point in time, so they plonked in a Turbo on the xeta engine, for the time being. No harm in doing that.
So it is essentially a stop gap measure.
What I'm against is the advertising and marketing of this engine like its the best thing ever.
When its not your best thing, dont advertise it as if it is.
My sole grudge is with the way its being marketed.
Thats how the marketing strategies work for any company. No product from any stable like Honda, Hyundai or the Suzukis is the best. They themselves overtake it for the entire life of their company. Thats R&D. Its all worth at a particular instance in time.
BTW, how many Hondas, skodas, Suzukis, Toyotas have been recalled back the world over? Why do those best companies!?!?! with best products do so!?!?!? Its all marketing strategy for everyone of the company to leap ahead.
BTW, what i feel is numbers on papers are something to be kept aside and not to be discussed so much here on forums. They are just an indication. But the real power delivery, how the car handles and rides, is it peppy are the things to be thought of more by anyone.
FOr instance, look at the comparisions of Hyundai's cars with German cars. The numbers of Korean car are much higher than those of Germans on the paper. But finally both feel the same on the road. Why? Does that mean that Hyundais are cheating (infact they may be as they are already neck deep with the mileage cheating issues). Its upto the wise buyers to test drive the products unbiasedly and come to a conclusion. BTW, by looking at the past history you cannot judge any company as they are always trying to improve and this time in a very big way.