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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by C1sc0cat on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:23AM (#20982975)
Volvo appear to have 3 main engines and multiple versions of the same engine.

And I suspect that some ICE engines in use are still variants of pre war designs the Chevy Small Block v8 is a little newer starting mid 1950's

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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by tyingq on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:32AM (#20983018)
"suspect that some ICE engines in use are still variants of pre war designs the Chevy Small Block v8 is a little newer starting mid 1950's"

Perhaps, but I'm not sure how relevant that is. The only pieces that remain somewhat as they were would be the block, crank, and rods.

Overhead cams, variable valve timing, aluminum heads/blocks, electronic ignition, fuel injection, ECU, etc...are all newish.

If some other design (rotary engines, for example) were better and made economic sense, they would have likely won out.

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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by C1sc0cat on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:54AM (#20983522)
Just variants though the British Leyland O series dated back to well before ww2 and lasted into the 80's if not the 90's
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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by tyingq on Monday September 16, 2019 @09:21AM (#20983724)
Which, as mentioned, was retrofitted with overhead cams, fuel injection, etc, decades after the WWII era.
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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by C1sc0cat on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @06:43AM (#20993520)
We are talking about the British car industry here, BL is what the the company that made the Mini couldn't work out what profit they where making on the dam thing.
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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by PorterDuff on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:19AM (#20984240)
" Chevy Small Block v8 is a little newer starting mid 1950's"

...and not used since 2003. Honestly, it's probably best to view an engine family like this as a form factor, not a design. It isn't like there were any 1955 parts in a 2000 engine, but the interconnects are (mostly) the same. Generally, any 90 degree V8 with a cam in the block is going to be the 'same', designers have pretty much standardized on just a few layouts.

An invariant SBC is like saying disk drives haven't evolved if they use the same mounting points and cabling/logic standards.

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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by LeonM on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:36AM (#20983048)
Yes, you are right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Volvo_engines

I thought they only produced the 2.0L 4 cylinder petrol in various configurations (turbo size, hybrid, non-hybrid). As it turns out they now also have a 3 cylinder engine.

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Re:Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system by benj111 on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:26AM (#20983356)
On the other hand, look at an actual car from the 1950s.

Yes they have 4 wheels, wind screen, engine, but reliability is massively different, power is massively different, comfort, crash safety, price (for what you get).

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