Varies between cars and engines.
BMW developing a new family of 3-cylinder turbo engines that will go into the next-generation MINI
The Smart cars have three cylinder engines, as did some Geo cars.
A car engine can be classified based on the number of cylinders it has. It could be a 4 cylinder, 6 cylinder, 8 cylinder, 10 cylinder, or 12 cylinder (the last two engines are mainly used in exotic cars). There are also rotary engines, electric engines, natural gas engines and hybrid (electric/gas) engines. Each of these has subcategories as in the most common piston engines listed above.
Engines supply energy the an engine shaft(metal cylinder) by making it turn. We used engines for almost everything... Cars, planes, fans.
These cars are the Twin-Cam 6 cylinder engines = 24 valves.
4 cylinder 177 Cubic Inch (2.9L) 20 H.P.
In a case of some vehicles the choice of engines can be anywhere from 4 cylinder engines to 8 cylinder engines. This can determine the value of the vehicle as well as the performance of that vehicle. Higher valued cars will cost more to replace when a claim is made. Higher performance cars are shown to be in more accidents. Usually, those who choose to drive higher performance cars are riskier then those who choose to driver lower performance cars. This may not be true in your case, but overall.
It is the name that Subaru uses to describe the horizontally opposed engines used in their cars. That is, instead of a vee configuration used on must 6 and 8 cylinder cars, or an in-line as used on most 4 cylinders, the Subaru 4 cylinder engines have the cylinders lying flat, two on each side of the crankshaft. --Ken
The best economy rental cars are sedans or coupes. These would be smaller cars with four cylinder engines for better gas mileage. They are usually not luxury and have only the basics.
There are cars that have engines with only ( 3 ) engine cylinders such as : The Chevrolet Metro with the 1.0 liter , 61 cubic inch , 3 cylinder engine ( 1999 )
Internal combustion gasoline or diesel engines power cars. Cars are also powered by electric motors.