Which reminds me, saved this in my drafts a few weeks ago, but had more to add to it, but never got round to it. Will maybe do the two other points over the weekend...
Three main points to make, but can't be bothered doing it all at once, so will split it up
Anyway, RTD makes it sound like a 1.0 litre engine is tiny. Well, of course, in traditional terms it is. But these ultra-modern turbo-charged engines are designed more with economy and emissions stuff in mind, etc, and in fact a 1.0 litre lump is probably equivalent to a 1.6 in an early petrol Mondeo, say, or even a 2.0 litre
My first taxi was a 1995 1.6 petrol Mondeo, which produced 115 bhp, as I recall it.
Which, I think, is the same as the 1.0 litre Octavia in the PHTM advert...
In fact, one article I found via Google earlier suggested that a petrol engine of that size is roughly equivalent to one double the size only ten years ago
I suspect that's a slight exaggeration (as maybe the figures from my Mondeo nearly thirty years ago demonstrate), but the Octavia in the advert isn't the same as what would have been a 1.0 litre car twenty years ago - ie a two-door 'town car', supermini, or similar.
In fact, on the standard Octavias I think the biggest petrol engine available is the 1.5 litre...
