Ferrari once made a supercharged two-stroke 3-cylinder engine 

Car bloke "Nasty blue smoke" Bike bloke "Smells like childhood dreams"

"not much torque" 500cc two strokes: What ?

The biggest engines in the world are actually 2-stroke albeit diesel.

Seems a lot like a spark ignition version of the compression ignition Detroit Diesel engine. 500 GP bikes were pushing close 190 bhp back in the day.

Koenigsegg: "interesting"

That 130hp is very downplayed and they could get much, much more. In the 90’s and early 00’s the 500cc GP bikes were pushing 190-200hp. From half a litre! Just imagine what F1 could do

“Ferrari hasn’t made a v6 in years” Laughs in giulia quadrifoglio

That Campervan Challenge from Old Top Gear. Rip Jeremy's Citroen Grand Design

4:13 *lovely blue smoke

Mazda should persue this tech because they always the weird one goes against all of other manufacturer's direction.

Lol the snowmobile industry has naturally aspirated 2 strokes that make 160 up from 800cc.

I realy realy realy realy realy realy would love to see more modern twostrokes being produced nowadays! This could be the Renaissance for ICE's 😍

4:25 Your big end has gone mate.

The 2 cycle engine has a bright future.

4:14 "nasty blue smoke" 😂 some people seem to like that nasty blue smoke

2-Stroke in F1? That'll give a nice smell on the track...😉

why is drivetribe not verified yet? also, nice shirt

Perhaps you may see bike engine manufacturers coming to F1.

Two stokes really shine in engines under 1L where the are very common and often make around 200hp/L naturally asperated. They are also reslly common with cvt transmissions to keep them in the powerband. It would be interesting to see if car manucaturers ever decide to make them again.

man i love your t-shirt

Now that's called Engineering!

I love the shirt, was one of my favourite episodes, the leaning towner of citroen lol

that would be FREEKIN AWESOME. I would love to see cars w/2-strokes. Excellent idea

Nasty blue smoke? I love 2 strokes and I love the blue smoke

Dry sump lubrication would also be a beneficial addition, cutting windage loses and allowing the engine to run even cleaner. I once owned a 3 cylinder Kawasaki H2 750cc 2-stroke motorcycle and I can assure you, there was no lack of torque with that little beast.

The shirt is great. One if the best episodes

Noticed an error at: 4:13. You said "nasty" when the correct term is "glorious"

Enzo Ferrari and Aurelio Lampredi also tried to design a 2 cylinder 2.5 liter engine in 1955 for Grand prix racing, but the crankshaft kept shaking itself apart. It was called the Tipo 116.

A 130bhp 1300cc supercharged engine would get laughed out of any motorcycle shop.

I have already seen that T-SHIRT . Those machines were brillant. Old times will be never forgotten.

Ahhh, so miss my old Aprilia RS250! ;)

Gotta love engine knowledge videos

Much like i said with the cosworth 3 cylinder, that engine needs to find its way into a hot hatch.

Come on Ferrari, put that engine on two wheels!

Hmm only 216hp with a turbo? The Nissan ZEOD engine is a 3cyl 1,5l 4-stroke turbo with 400hp, and it weighs only 40kg.

Love the Top Gear shirt. “Hammer!” 🤣

4:50 Gotta love the dank nugget posted up in front of the Ferrari logo!

this was tremendously interesting. Thanks!

That top gear shirt is awesome, I remember that episode

I always thought 2 strokes could make double the power compared to similar sized 4 strokes.

Some old Japanese engines for the 80s or 90s has same power or even more in production 3 cylinder cars than this engine. Thank for the video.

2T Principle with exhaust valves When the all-round transfer ports open, the valves must also be opened so that the burnt gas can be flushed out. The transfer and exhaust timing strongly depends on the pressure generated by the supercharger. The work load that stops in a normal 2t as soon as the exhaust opens, continues here until the opening of the transfer ports. I see that this flush is not yet sufficiently optimal because with 430 hp of power it lags behind the approx. 730 hp of the Aprilia RSA level in 2007. The fact that the crankshaft is inhibited by the oil is also a loss, but that cannot be so high. Perhaps we should conclude that this was only the beginning of a new design and that it should have been further developed.

Great video as always! Love the t-shirt!!

Merci! Thanks from Québec Canada! Love this series!

Could see the advances in gearboxes, especially in quantity of gears versus size and weight and speed of change being an enabler for this. A 10 or 12 speed gearbox would negate any low torque or narrow power band issues. Couple this with a hybrid electrical system like KERS to torque fill during the gear changes and at low RPM and you could have a mega package that I supposed isn't that different to current F1 and LMP1 engineering with their small displacement and high revving hybrid power units.

That shirt is iconic

You completely missed out how Ferrari made a 3 cylinder motorcycle engine for the Carl Fogarty FP1. (Although it was rebadged a Petronas)

Napier Nomad. One of the best and most efficient ever. ;-)

It sounds like a genuine direction of development for a company NOT betting the farm on EVs.

Lovely T-shirt!

Ring da da da ding ding ding.

F1 and hybrids should move to jet engine as a generator to batteries/electric motors! Develop new technologies, new renewable jet fuels for aviation, sounds awesome...

Cool shirt. Wondering if BBC is going to have something to say about it.

1 have a 80’s yamaha 60hp outboard which is 3sylinder 2-stroke

Cool shirt! Miss that leaning tower of Citroen

love the T Shirt , with the most hilarious TG episode to date ,love Jeremy's building built hover the Citroën CX :D

Ferrari: we're so cool, we made a supercharged 2-stroke Detroit Diesel: aw thats cute. we made single up to 16 cyl 2-stroke supercharged and sometimes also turbocharged 2-stroke diesels.

Maybe it’s me, but I think your blower is spinning backwards. Love the shirt

Love the shirt such memories

Loving that t shirt

Great video ! I oftenly wonder why 2 strokes engines aren't made anymore, technology has evolved and I was sure it would doable. So thanks for this explanations and the little history lesson. And as always, I love your accent

What a magnificent little engine!

Thanks lad! Such informative

i would imagine direct injection technology is what was needed to gain the effeciencies. but like with the opposed piston engines cylinder oil control is still a problem with ports in the wall.

It's a gasoline Detroit diesel pretty much, ive always wanted to do a engine like this but I guess Ferrari had the idea years before I was even born lol

Another thing is there'll be less rotational mass to spool up (missing one cam at least even with exhaust valves) so it should be a lot more snappy and rev happy. Once they put the other side on too the rotating of the crank etc is more or less already taken care of in the first 130hp so the second 130hp would be with almost no cost

People say 2-strokes are a thing of the past. In my opinion they‘re a thing of the future as well.

I'm not sure this would be worth it to F1, with solenoid valve systems coming to the forefront. The addition of individual cylinder valve timing in F1 would be a monumental boon as it could be the savior of some very expensive engines, not to mention allowing thermal control of individual cylinders. Being able to regulate the valve timing based on individual cylinder oxygen sensor, and exhaust gas temperatures could really help.

Detroit did it first. Old school tech from the late 30's.

2-stoke engines = LAWNMOWERS , that's why

A Ferrari v4 would be insane in old 90s civic or some small old JDM car.

Haha! Ferrari goes ring-da-da-ding!

Those 3 points made around 2:49 are incorrect... 2T's run cooler then 4T due to less rotating mass and moving components, 2ndly 2T can run at any powerband you want. A typical 125cc 2T does have a narrow power and but if you have ridden anything bigger you will know they tend to open up and become torque monsters with low end grunt, chunky mid range and a tight powerband up top like my TM300EN 2T is and all 500 2Ts are. They are torque monsters that are mistakenly thought of only producing horsepower. In the big 700cc 2T Maico they are almost all torque leading up to the powerband which hits you with the HP.

In general terms, 2 strokes avg. about 30% more peak hp/unit of displacement, while requiring about 30% fewer parts...That really crazy if you think about it.

I always thought the higher the revs, the more energy gets wasted just stopping the pistons and turning them around.

The Rotax 850cc E-tec TURBO DI 2 cylinder makes 165HP in consumer form....And keeps making that HP at altitude. It also weighs less than that Ferrari boat anchor from the 90's. It uses computerized lubrication and fuel delivery.

Mike i want to have every single one of your t-shirts no matter the price

Dude, your shirt is awesome!

Funny you mention on smoke, as Ferrari F1 2018 V6 hybrid engine produce a high amount of smokes when it's started up

My theory / list on how this came to be: 1. Lit it up 2. Wrote their high-deas down 3. The next morning, thought "GENIUS"

Cool video. Thanks

*Must have sounded a treat !*

Great vid!

I hope turbocharged twostrokes make it into many production cars!!!

Interesting Mike, thanks!

Here because of Donut

That T-shirt is awesome

Pat Symonds is correct about 2 strokes. Evinrude's latest outboards are quite impressive (Ecotech?).

Hey Drivetribe can you make a video on the Lotec Concept? It had 1000bhp weighed 1000kg and this was in the 80s/90s

Love the top gear shirt!!!

"Nasty blue smoke" hmmm bikes would be wasted on you.

*Is the shirt you're wearing a small or did you opt for the medium?*

the location of those intake runners make me uneasy

"Twin port fuel injection" wth is that? Did he mean to say transfer port fuel injection

Great shirt Great episode

This is genius. Make it a V12, that’s 860hp. Keep the MGU-K/H, which supplies additional hp and bonus torque. So we got V12s, but reliable, high rev sound, and road application for the V3 on Fiat/Chrysler economy cars, V6 on Alfas and SUVs. Everybody wins!

Ferrari should have made a motorcycle with this engine.

Great Video. Where did you get that shirt? Love it😍

2t engines have torque like crazy but its more at the bottom

Ok so the sump lubes the crank, whats lubricating the piston and rings if no oil is mixed with the fuel?