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Originally Posted by Moppie
Before you question the ignorance of others you should be careful about expressing your own.
Turbocharging increases and engines efficiency, but there is no law that states that increased efficiency must be used in a high performance car tio make it faster.
It can instead be used to make a car more economical to run, or fit with in a different tax or insurance bracket in some markets.
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That's not what I was trying to say, let me try to express that paragraph again.
What I was trying to say is that although usually turbo cars are of a high performance category, some car companies simply have a turbo model car just so they can market it as a "turbo model", thereby increasing the cool factor of the company. And that it's not the turbo in itself that matters but the end hp and torque curves of the engine. i.e. there are other reasons for using turbos.
Just to back that up, there have been models of cars where companies tuborcharge tiny engines not to have a fast high performance vehicle but to have a more efficient tiny engine and to have the marketing appeal of "turbo model" (I think one of the SMART cars is of this philosophy?
http://www.smartaustralia.com.au/ind...link_id=13.907 and
http://www.smartaustralia.com.au/index.aspx?link_id=13.904.
In summary, turbo doesn't mean high performance, there are other reasons to turbocharge a vehicle. --- >which is sort of what you said.
Sorry for not making that absolutely clear in my last post.
However, I still stand by my original point. Much better discussion is initiated when specific questions are asked e.g. i need a small car with big power, is it better to go FI or NA ; rather than, which is better, FI or NA.
It's not even about ignorance, everyone is ignorant about something. But if you want to acquire knowledge, put some pre reading into it and ask specific questions and you get a much better answer.
I suppose I could have been nicer about it, but I am sometimes quite a blunt person when answering questions. I apologise if it deeply offended anyone as that was not my aim.
Just to back that up, look at my original post:
dude, look on google first. u r asking one of the most generic questions in relation to cars.
Blunt but true
it makes u look like an idiot and other will treat u like one.
Case in point "Turbo cars have a turbo, and cars without a turbo dont have turbos. Or was you not looking for a smartass answer?"
You can write an entire thesis on this topic.
Blunt but true
Generally, it comes down to that you want out of your car and that is the only thing that will determine if one is better than the other.
Trying to give some help by providing a general answer to a general question
If you are scared of highly techincal write ups (I am) try
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
They have very easy to understand explanations of both NA and FI engines and by using some intuition you can sorta figure out the advantages of one over the other and if not, it will give u some basic knowledge to try to tackle some more techinical articles.