Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Why Inline 6 Cylinders Are Better Than V6 Engines - A Comeback Story" video.

  1. Performance-wise, the I6 will always be inferior to the V6 and flat6. The long 6 pins crankshaft and long camshafts required by the I6 reduces the revs. That's why Mercedes used a long stroke (that reduces the revs too). Being a I6, the engine couldn't have revved high anyway.
    2
  2. Performance-wise, the I6 will always be inferior to the V6 and flat6. The long 6 pins crankshaft and long camshafts required by the I6 reduces the revs. That's why Mercedes used a long stroke (that reduces the revs too). Being a I6, the engine couldn't have revved high anyway.
    1
  3. Yeah. Tell to the Alfa V6, 540hp from 2.9 litres, that inline six are better. What you are talking of are downward compromises to save manufacturing costs (Mercedes' buyers in particular should be happy to know that the brand made those compromises to save costs, shouldn't they? It's an economic brand after all...). A long stroke engine is limited in its rev, and the six crankpins required by an inline six reduces the rigidity of the cranckshaft. Performance-wise, the I6 will always be inferior to the V6. To bolt on an electric engine to a gasoline one to make up for its defects doesn't improve the architecture. You can bolt on electric engines to every gasoline one, not only to I6 ones.
    1
  4. Walter Röhrl on his experiences in Lancia and Audi. Lancia: "we built a car where everything that breaks can be replaced in five minutes". Audi: "We built a car where nothing breaks". Then, something got broken on the Audi, and it required an hour of work to be replaced.
    1