Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system

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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