The Ten Engines Shared By The Most Carmakers

ba_barabus

Some pretty interesting reading here, some I didn't realise were as popular as they actually are.

http://jalopnik.com/the-ten-engines-shared-by-the-most-carmakers-1681112572

The Ten Engines Shared By The Most Carmakers

Pop the hood on your car and there's a decent chance one of these is lurking down there.

10.) Ford Duratec V6



The predecessor to the Ecoboost appeared in almost all of Ford's brands including Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Mazda, Jaguar, and Aston Martin. Aston's V12 is more or less just two Duratec V6s stuck together and warmed over by Cosworth. That's still used today.

Oh, and the Ecoboost V6 is derived from the Duratec as well.

9.) Mitsubishi Sirius



This inline-4 found its home throughout the '80s in various Misubishis, Dodges, Chryslers, and Eagles, as you'd expect. It also found itself in cars made by Hyundai and Proton, and is being used to this day in a variety of Chinese cars.

8.) GM Ecotec



While the Ecotec isn't as famous as the similarly-named Ecoboost, it's probably appeared in more cars. It's been used in various guises in every single GM brand (including all the dead/sold ones), Fiat, Alfa Romeo, and even the Elfin T5.

7.) Cosworth DFV



Ok, so you're not going to find this in your road car, but it was in a majority of F1 cars made from 1967-1983, as well as a slew of Formula 3000, Indy Cars, and Le Mans racers.

Seriously, everyone used this engine.

6.) Ford Modular V8



As we mentioned yesterday, the 4.6 L V8 was used in pretty much any Ford that had a V8 for a while, but it was also a popular engine for low-volume sports car makers.

You'll find it in cars from Panoz, Qvale, MG, Marcos, and even early Koenigseggs.

5.) Continental Flathead Inline 6



You've probably never heard of this engine (I hadn't), but for low volume automakers from the 20s-60s it was ubiquitous. Reader ranwhenparked compiled the whole list.

4.) Fiat 1.3 Multijet diseasel



You probably won't see this motor in America, but it's extremely popular everywhere else. You'll find it in Fiats, Chevrolets, Alfa Romeos, Lancias, Opels, and tons of others. Check out mike89's comment, for the staggering usage of this engine.

3.) PRV V6



PRV stands for Peugeot-Renault-Volvo, who developed this V6 together. It's found in their cars, as well as in cars from Alpine, Venturi, Citroen, Dodge, Eagle, Lancia, and many others, most notoriously DeLorean.

2.) Buick V6/V8



Buick started out with this aluminum V8 in 1960 after a couple years of development. Pontiac also used it early on.

Then Buick cut two cylinders off the thing and called it the Fireball.

In '67 Buick sold the tooling for the Fireball to Kaiser-Jeep, which called it the Dauntless.

Jeep used it for a while until AMC bought Jeep and the tooling went into storage.

Buick's chief engineer needed a new V6 after the '73 fuel crisis, remembered the old Fireball and actually dug up an old example out of a junkyard and got it running. Buick then worked out a deal to buy the tooling for the car from AMC.

Then the Dauntless/Fireball was developed into a new Buick V6, which was later developed into the undying GM 3800. In these variations, the V6 was shared with every singe north septic GM division including cadillac and also Holden.

While all that was going on, a boss from Rover literally tripped over a Buick V8 while at Mercury Marine to do a deal on turbine engines, and ended up picking up the rights to that engine.

The then-Rover V8 went into just about every British carmaker of the last half century short of Aston Martin. Oh, and before that it went to Indy and also to Formula One as the Australian Repo.

The full list for the V6 is:

Buick
Pontiac40
Jeep
Olds
Chevy
Cadillac
Holden

The full list for the V8 (not counting Mercury Marine) is

Buick
Rover
Morgan
Brabham (using the Repco)
Mickey Thompson (for the 1962 Harvey Aluminium Special that Gurney ran at Indy)
Ginetta
Land Rover
MG
Triumph
TVR
Bowler
Leyland (their Australian arm)
Sisu (apparently this was some kind of Finnish military offroader)
That's a grand total of 17 major carmakers, 20 if you count race car and military manufacturers, and 21 if you count marine engines as well. Not a bad run."

1.) BMC A-Series



This little four-banger found its way into nearly every brand of British Leyland including, Austin, Austin-Healey, MG, Riley, Morris, Vanden Plas, Wolseley, and Rover. But since it was the engine for the Mini, the total is actually much, much higher thanks to the bevy of Mini-based cars.

Oh, and Nissan bought the license to manufacture this engine as well, bringing the total to a staggering 172 different brands.

Chris_Heilong

And my last 4 cars have had none of them.

Cosmo K

The Ford/PSA 1.6 hdi is missing from that list.

Duke O Smiley

BMC's A-series is a little tank. It can really shift.

ba_barabus

Cosmo K wrote: »

The Ford/PSA 1.6 hdi is missing from that list.

It's certainly fitted across a wide range of cars but has it sold in enough volume?

colm_mcm

The 2.0 VM Motori common rail engine was fitted to Hyundai, Kia, opel, daewoo, chevrolet.
Not sure on volumes though.

alias no.9

Is the Fiat 1.3 Multijet the only engine to be fitted to models from each of the American big 3, Ford, GM and Chrysler? Possibly never shipping a single one to a retail customer in the US however.

colm_mcm

alias no.9 wrote: »

Is the Fiat 1.3 Multijet the only engine to be fitted to models from each of the American big 3, Ford, GM and Chrysler? Possibly never shipping a single one to a retail customer in the US however.

AFAIK VM Motori supplied the same 2.5 TD engine in the ford Scorpio, opel frontera, and chrysler voyager.

ba_barabus

Another engine notable by it's absence is the Rover K-series. It was fitted to a large number of cars and brands.

colm_mcm

The VW 2.0 TDI obviously was used in VW, SEAT, Skoda, Audi, but also in Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, Mitsubishi,

ba_barabus

Other widely used engines curiously missed:

Ford Kent
Ford Essex V6 (UK)
BMC B Series
Triumph SC
Perkiness 4.108
Pew Joe XUD
VM modular OHV diseasels

pablo128

The Fiat SOHC was fitted to a serious amount of cars.

Mycroft H

colm_mcm wrote: »

AFAIK VM Motori supplied the same 2.5 TD engine in the ford Scorpio, opel frontera, and chrysler voyager.

And the Range Rover before the 200tdi existed.

JohnBoy26

Peugeot xud

colm_mcm

Same 1.0 engine used in Toyota, subaru, daihatsu, perodua , Peugeot, citroen, Aston Martin (cygnet)

Jesus.

Colm what do you think of the CRDI's?

colm_mcm

As in hyundai?

Mixed bag, I think the 1.5, 1.6 and later 2.0 and 2.5 are great yokes.

Eric Cartman

Bmw m62 v8

Range rover l322 up to 2007
Bentley arnage 98-2007?
Morgan aero 8
Bmw e38 7 series
Bmw e39 5 series
Bmw e53 x5
Bmw z8
Ascari kz1
Ascari a10

Was bored in so many itterations from 3.5 litre up to 4.8