
Japan, home to the most technologically advanced culture, has several of the largest automotive manufacturers in the world. High standards of quality control, reliability, affordability and efficient engineering have led Japanese manufacturers to be a dominate force in the global automotive market. In this article, a comparison will be made between Japan's modern engine-design methodology to use smaller-capacity, high revving, turbo charged engines, and that of America's tradition of using large-capacity, low-revving, naturally aspirated engines. Japan's most technologically advanced performance engine, the 2JZ-GTE, will be compared...