MOTOR Magazine Australia

Libertine’s crank call

that the internal combustion engine (ICE), as a concept, has been refined and developed to the point where it doesn’t have much else to give? If so, the final numbers make pretty depressing reading. The most thermally efficient automotive internal combustion engine sits in Lewis Hamilton’s F1 car, with an efficiency of 50 per cent. AMG is aiming for 41 per

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