The competition is organised by the British company UKIP Media & Events, and is independent of marks: "We do not receive publicity or financial support from manufacturers or dealers," says the small print of the bases of the event. The jury, composed of journalists specialised in automotive (65 from 31 countries in this seventeenth Edition), valued aspects such as power consumption, performance and technology used in each engine, and granted 12 trophies in total.
The engine factory
The reliability of an engine largely depends on how take care. But there are three basic tips that will help keep the mechanics in form: do not accelerate too with the cold car, not turn off suddenly when hot and change the oil once a year but does not touch.
Begin to circulate with the car, have to pamper the engine until you take temperature. It should accelerate smoothly and avoid too much upload speed: not exceeding, for example, 50% of the total rotational speed. The coolant will reach 90 degrees recommended certain quickly (you can see in the display of the Instrumentation), but oil will take a few more minutes and it is more important, although, paradoxically, very few cars include an oil temperature indicator.\
Cars with engine turbo, either petrol or diesel, also require some care to turn off the vehicle, and not only to start it. After travel hundreds of kilometres by motorway and, for example, stop to refuel or to eat, a good precaution is to leave the car at idle about 30 or 40 seconds before shutting it off. Thus not burned oil residue will accumulate in the turbo and will extend the duration of this component.
Finally, apply a scrupulous maintenance is another guarantee of longevity. Change the oil once a year, but they have not fulfilled the kilometers established till the next change, is another solution to maximize the life of the engine. It is one more affordable operations, but also the most necessary, because if you have lost property or missing oil, the propeller will not be properly lubricated and serious damage may cause.
There is one primary, which differentiates absolute winners and is named International Engine of the Year. He is accompanied by other three parallel Awards, awards for the new engine (New Engine), a direct window to the most recent developments of the market, and Motor Sport (Performance) and eco (Green) Motor, representing two technological Struts with the latest in engineering. And the development is completed with other eight crowns that outlined the most interesting mechanics of each engine capacity of less than 1. 000cc more than 4. 000cc, making a revision to the entire offering in the market. For this reason, some engines get more than one trophy: of their displacement and, perhaps, some parallel laurels.
Awards are trying to select the most complete engines, with the best balance between all aspects, and not just in one. Thus, a mechanic who spent very little but missing him power or is not nice driving (for loudness, response to accelerating...) is difficult to finish to be imposed. Any of the winners, and finalists, offers guarantees that you buy a large propeller.
Striking the rise of engines turbo, both displacements lower, with mechanical of three cylinders, and the superiors, with propellers of six and eight, and also mechanical batteries, both pure electric and the plug-in hybrids, which year after year go climbing positions.
In the edition of 2015, BMW has been awarded the absolute Award (International Engine of the Year) with the mechanical sports i8 plug-in hybrid; Ford is second with its engine 1.0 Ecoboost turbo petrol and three cylinders (winner the past three years), and Peugeot closed the podium with its propeller 1.2 PureTech, also turbo cylinder gasoline. But BMW also manages other three gold medals that make it the big winner of the contest: best new engine, best engine 1. 400cc 1. 800cc and 2. 500cc 3. 000cc. The German manufacturer produces 4 of the 12 Awards, although 3 correspond to its plug-in mechanism, which also achieved the award of new engine ahead of two propellers from
