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If you ask most enthusiasts to name some of the best-sounding engines of all time, screaming V12s or rumbling V8s will top the list. However, most people fail to remember a glorious six-cylinder built in the 1970s that sang a tune comparable to that of a racing unit.
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Time changes everything. Forty years ago, the excitement and novelty factor of the turbocharger was enough to prompt the contrivance of the word being plastered on everything from vacuum cleaners to razor blades. Natural aspiration? Oh yes, that more traditional approach, where air enters the induction system of an internal combustion engine at the same pressure as the planet outside before being compressed with a squirt of fuel by the piston and ignited with the assistance of a spark? That one was suddenly so very yesterday.
Nevertheless, and perhaps against the odds, the naturally aspirated engine mounted a comeback, and for a while the turbocharger was as unfashionable as other forms of ’80s excess, such as Ferrari Testarossas and shoulder pads, and those weird battery-powered dancing flowers in pots. The naturally aspirated engine made inroads back into both motorsport and road cars, from Formula 1 to hot hatchbacks. Revs and noise were once again king.