Cadillac Sixteen
Cadillac Sixteen prototype model luxury car brand Cadillac. Top speed is 227km/h
Styling for 30 years even includes the same as the way to open the engine hatch – two wings with hinges on extending central rib. Szesnastocylindrowy engine (system V) has a capacity of 13.6 liters, a thousand horses, and 16 cylinders, 12 of which can be turned off. The result is a power of 1000hp and a maximum torque of 1350 Nm reaches. It was the announcement of series motors of Displacement on Demand (capacity on demand). DoD technology allows for automatically reducing the amount of working cylinders half. Sixteen engine so it can operate at 16, 8 or even 4 cylinders. Together with a decrease in operating performance of the engine cylinders are falling, but also decreases the combustion.
Engine DoD starts from all cylinders to deliver power to move quickly. While driving, the computer analyzes the driving conditions and decide whether all cylinders are needed or not. If it considers that it simply closes the valves of selected cylinders. When you need to quickly accelerate machine in a split second turns on all cylinders. During the test drive from Detroit to California found that 65 percent. expensive car driven on eight cylinders, 30 percent. four, and only 5 percent. all sixteen.
To build the car used aluminum so the weight reached about 2.3 tons.
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