In this case, Hyundai's doing it. Chevy's doing it. Chrysler's going to do it. Even Porsche will be doing it. And now Mercedes-Benz has joined the gang: The luxury carmaker too will fit a downsized, turbocharged, four-cylinder engine to a car where sixes were previously the rule (or at least a popular option).
The German brand will offer a 1.8-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine to its 2012 C-Class, the first four it has offered in the U.S. in several years. More striking, it expects the four to power fully half the C-Class models sold in the United States going forward.
The C-Class has been fitted with both gasoline and diesel fours in Europe, and other markets, for many years. And in previous generations of C-Class, it offered both a C220 four and a supercharged version known as the C230 Kompressor. But with the launch of the current C-Class design in 2007 , the fours vanished.
Now they're back, and smaller than ever. Like the 1.4-liter engines that are becoming standard in compact cars, we expect fours of 1.8 to 2.5 liters to become the standard offering in midsize vehicles, from the 2011 Hyundai Sonata to the new lineup of 2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class models.
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