Smaller, more powerful engines:
Remember the era when those plodding, dinosaur-sized SUVS clogged America’s highways and drank fuel like a bunch of drunken frat boy partiers? The industry is now way on the other end of the size spectrum. You will see many more small engines with big performance numbers in 2012 because of the success of General Motors’ 2-liter, four-cylinder turbocharged, direct-injection engine, which cranks out 270 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque.
