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Strange way of scritping this advert blurb perhaps - bit stale perhaps to talk about car manufacturers only now focussing on turbocharging. Surely a relatively high proportion of European and Asian car manufacturers offer gasoline powered cars amongst their model range with turbocharging already? I reckon turbocharging of gas engines in certain production models has been around for a good 20 years or so but I guess the trend is to extend its advantages more broadly than the Subaru Sti type of rocket ships and other performance related models to achieve the power, extra torque and efficiency offered. I know there are after-market turbochargers for most gas engines (plus the magic chips of course!) these days as well but I suspect, like anything on a boat, adding 50% to the output means looking at transmissions and shafts and props too!
Maybe engineers can offer wiser comment but it does seem inevitable that small turbocharged high torque gas engines will replace the big capacity but old technology vehicle-sourced V8s common in fizz boats as well, just like cars. Mind you, apart from scary prices by comparison, hard for any marinised gas engine to compete with modern supercharged/turbocharged diesels that offer similar performance results - with better inherent safety and less to go wrong - maybe.
(useless info: I do recall hearing some time ago that those turbocharged Seatec(?) diesels then used by the top teams in offshore power boating (in their outrageous 1400HP race form) had a rebuild life span of about 6 hours! At around 600 HP with the boost wound way back when spec'd for more 'normal' marine use rebuild spans increased to several thousand hours.)
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