How to Use twin-turbo in a Sentence

twin-turbo

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  • The car is powered by a twin-turbo six-cylinder engine making 700 horsepower.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Owners can drive in silence for 19 miles before the twin-turbo V6 engine awakens.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Another button shows the inner workings of the twin-turbo V-8 engine and electric front axle.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The hybrid’s steering, drivability, and the sound of the twin-turbo V8 are also adjustable.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 24 Apr. 2024
  • It was originally supposed to feature a V-6, but now has a twin-turbo flat-plane V-8 engine at its heart.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The only performance figures Ford has revealed is 400 hp from the twin-turbo V6.
    — Mark Phelan, USA Today, 30 June 2025
  • Maybach’s 4-liter twin-turbo V8 is built on AMG’s one-man/one-engine niche assembly line.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The burly off-roader comes with several performance upgrades, the chief of which is a twin-turbo V-8 that pumps out well over 600 horses.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 July 2024
  • What was thought to be an electric successor has evolved into (seemingly) a twin-turbo V6 hybrid resurrection.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Power is made by a twin-turbo V-8 making 478 horsepower, mated to a five-speed manual transmission.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Autocar thinks the Supersports’ twin-turbo V-8 engine will make around 640 brake horsepower.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Sitting above all of them in performance is the ZR1x, which takes the twin-turbo setup and hybrid system to reach 1,250 horsepower.
    — Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • It's powered by a 5-liter twin-turbo V8 engine paired with the company's signature n-speed Light Speed Transmission.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 June 2025
  • That car is also powered by the twin-turbo V-8 and shares other parts with the Temerario Super Trofeo, including the transmission.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Audi had previously signaled a shift to purely electric vehicles so this brutal high-revving hybrid twin-turbo V8 was totally unexpected.
    — New Atlas, 5 June 2026
  • The second new vehicle is the 2026 Charger Scat Pack, featuring a Sixpack twin-turbo inline-six engine.
    — Ali McCadden, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Brabus has tuned this Mercedes-AMG G63’s twin-turbo V-8 to punch above its weight class with 800 hp and 737 ft lbs of torque.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2026
  • On the Turbo, the sound of the twin-turbo V-8 then fills the cabin, a delightful but refined roar that is slightly boosted in amplitude by the car’s sound system, still provided by Burmester on higher trims.
    — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Take all that was said above about the Taycan Turbo S Cross Turismo, and exchange the electric power plant for a masterful, potent twin-turbo V-8.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2026
  • When firing off the line, the twin-turbo mill bellows and the back end skitters as the electronic stability control brokers a truce between 369 ft lbs of torque and the Pilot Super Sport tires.
    — Nick Czap, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2024
  • As for the second-generation 300ZX, one option was a twin-turbo V-6, which is what the Z Heritage Edition celebrates.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The resulting machine features a new Mercedes-AMG twin-turbo V-12, tweaked to be about seven percent more powerful than the coupe version of the BC.
    — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2025
  • While the Bentayga used to come with a W12 power plant, the new offering from the Winged B is a twin-turbo V-8, with 641 horses and 627 lb-ft on call.
    — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The Temerario Super Trofeo is powered by a twin-turbo V-8 making 641 horsepower that’s mated to a six-speed sequential manual transmission.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 10 Nov. 2025
  • It is powered by an electric motor and a 4-liter twin-turbo V-8 engine, delivering 812 horsepower and roughly 738 foot-pounds of torque, Lamborghini said.
    — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 1 July 2026
  • The marque’s 2027 iteration is powered by a twin-turbo V-8 engine that makes 656 horsepower, with no hybrid component, mated to an 8-speed double clutch transmission.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The car underneath is a Mercedes-AMG G63, which is powered by a 577-horsepower twin-turbo V-8 engine, mated to a nine-speed automatic transmission.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The 2027 Bentley Continental GT Supersports is powered by a twin-turbo V-8 engine making 656 horsepower and weighing less than two metric tons.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2025
  • On the internal combustion side, the GranTurismo’s Modena and Trofeo trim levels offer the brand’s the same twin-turbo V-6 found in the MC20 supercar, which is connected to an eight-speed automatic and all-wheel-drive.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2026
  • For 2026, the Z will be powered by a twin-turbo V-6 like the 300ZX of old, except the 2026 Nissan Z’s twin-turbo V-6 makes 400 horsepower at its weakest, in the Sport and Performance packages.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025

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