General Motors’ modern Ecotec engine family first saw the light of day in 2000, when a 2.2-liter inline-four making 147 hp debuted for global use in the Opel Astra — the German brand was a GM subsidiary until it sold it in 2017 — and Saturn’s L-series cars. GM updated the 2.2-liter with direct injection a few years later, but it took until 2006 for GM to introduce the 2.4-liter Ecotec engine to cars like the Chevrolet Cobalt and
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