Chinese car brand Qoros tried to conquer Europe before, but they are no Geely just yet. While the brand is doing okay in China, using a 1.6 turbo developed by a bunch of Germans a few years ago, they want more. That's why they gave a call to Christian von Koenigsegg and his pals at Freevalve AB to ask them what their camless technology is all about.

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After watching the video above, Qoros decided having smaller dimensions and lower manufacturing costs with more power and less emissions is exactly what their 1.6 needs as an upgrade. What they now call Qamfree has conventional port injection, but no camshaft drive, wastegate, throttle body or pre-catalytic converter. What it does have instead is high compression, vastly improved cold start, lower backpressure, individual cylinder shut down and complete valve control.

The result is 47 percent more torque, 45 percent more power, 15 percent less fuel and 35 percent fewer emissions from an engine that's also smaller, lighter and cheaper to manufacture.

Expect this to appear in a Koenigsegg near you soon.

Freevalve's engine debuted in the Qoros 3 hatchback at the Guangzhou Motor Show, and Qoros will carry on by running a fleet a test vehicles for evaluation purposes. If that goes well, the camless engine will be here to stay, thanks to China.

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