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The little Alfa Romeo sports car, the Mito, is certainly a successful product, and the common-rail diesel engine version can be spotted easily on the road. Today, however, we will discuss two of the turbocharged petrol versions that are very different from one another in terms of displacement, power, and design...

First of all, we should thank Italian engineer Mario Ricco for having this excellent insight. It was this engineer that invented the common-rail system in Italy. It happened in the early 1990s, but to see the first cars with this modern injection system on the road, we had to wait until 1997, when the Alfa 156 1.9JTD and the Mercedes C-Class with the 220CDI were put on the market.

Let's discuss the 418d version F32-33-36-82-83. Sorry, with all due respect, who advised you to buy a 4-Series with this engine configuration? We understand those who don't want to choose the 3000 turbodiesel versions or even more so those who are frightened by the M4 (450 horsepower) and M4 GTS acronyms, but going " under" the 2-liter common rail 184hp seems risky when talking about BMW 4 Series.

Welcome back; we have returned (as promised) to discuss in detail how chip tuning units work on diesel engines that use PDEs, or injector pumps, as their injection system. We previously described other injection systems, namely, the first electronic injection control system via an electronically controlled rotary pump, then the second evolution of centralized injection pump, i.e., the one with a radial piston pump.

The Jeep Compass 1.6 multijet 120hp is a car that has found a fair amount of success. It's available with an array of different engines, but today we are talking about the diesel 1600 that uses a customized version of the Fiat-derived 4-cylinder common-rail, with four valves per cylinder and 120hp maximum power.