Chrome Plated Rods?!? (Engine Rods)?
okay, I saw the movie Grease recently on TV, not the first time (I'm 25 years-old, I watched it like 5 times IN school before for whatever reason) that being all stated, in the song "Go Grease Lightening, you're tearing up the Quarter Mile"...John

As carmakers and consumers seek real, affordable gains in miles per gallon, it will be the once-humble 4-cylinder combustion engine that takes them there — far more than electrics or hybrids, which are years away from selling in numbers that would rein in the nation’s greenhouse emissions and appetite for oil.
Audi has unveiled the Audi A5 e-tron quattro plug-in hybrid prototype with sophisticated hybrid systems. The hybrid system that featured in this prototype utilizes an internal combustion engine.