We quickly become accustomed to the noises they make when we start them, while they're at idle, and after we've shut them down upon arriving at our destination. However, when a new engine noise is ...
While it’s normal for a car to be idling high when it’s first started, if the idle doesn’t drop to normal after a minute or two, something’s probably wrong.
Thanks to a newly developed mixed-mode HCCI feature and external EGR, the engines can now run in HCCI from idle all the way to 60 mph! We had a chance to drive a Saturn Aura with an HCCI engine ...