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Do you think that turbos were all the rage in the 80s? Well, you're wrong: turbochargers have never been as popular as they are now, there have never been so many turbo cars, so the question is: Are turbo or naturally aspirated engines better? As you can see from our set in Spain, we are still in a state of emergency. But we continue making videos to entertain you. And before watching this one, we recommend that you watch the other videos we have about turbos: How does a turbo work? • How does a TURBO work? Turbo, everything you need to know? • TURBO: everything you need to KNOW The golden age of turbos • Video In the late 70s and early 80s, turbos and sportiness, turbos and power were practically synonymous. That's why most of the cars that had them boasted about it. The first turbos were very special cars, for better and for worse. Anyone who has had the opportunity to drive one of these eighties cars will have seen that the response time was sometimes quite noticeable and that response, when it came, was brutal. Are naturally aspirated or turbo engines better? Well, if we talk about Diesel, there is no comparison: The Diesel cycle and the turbo are made for each other. The reason? Well, the peculiarity of the Diesel, which can work with excess air. In gasoline engines, the matter is not so easy. The arrival of injection and even more so of direct injection, solved many things and made life easier for engineers. Above all, the arrival of direct injection. With injection, turbos with very small diameters that work alone or in the company of larger ones, we have reached the present day, in which there are truly cars with turbos in which you do not notice the response time and the power curve is a prodigy of progressiveness.