Tighter fuel economy and emission standards will lead to the production of petrol and diesel engines with three or fewer cylinders to almost double by 2013, according to research from Detroit-based IHS Automotive, a forecasting company.
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IHS predicts that nearly 8m such engines will be built globally by 2013, up from 4.2m this year. Most of them – 7.3m or 90% – will be petrol engines but output of small diesels will almost double to around 637,000 units in the same period.
IHS also predicts that output of five cylinder diesels will double, six cylinder diesel production will grow 10% and eight cylinder diesel output will increase 39% over this same three year period. Europe will maintain its diesel dominance, producing two thirds of all engines.
Production of V8 petrol engines is expected to decline by 19% while five cylinder petrol engines will decline 7% decline; four cylinder petrol engine production will grow 21% and six cylinder engine production by 9%.
