This is where we should have been years ago , love it and now make a Barra into one

 

DOD was a good idea for the V8 crowd but just didn’t really work that well but this is brilliant and next level 

 

loving where technology is taking us 

lol @ any technological developments for a barra.

 

displacement on demand? that's a silly fancy name for cylinder deactivation.

 

reminds me of this video from EE ->

There was also a big push from French manufactures a long time ago to do the same.  The government invested money big time in to seeing if it could be done. And lets face it, the French do have a reasonable sized car industry and have come up with some interesting tech solutions.

 

The funniest thing about what I've just said is that I believe they gave up and development stopped. That's right, the French government gave up