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    A straight-12 engine or inline-12 engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine with all twelve cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
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    A straight-six engine (also referred to as an inline-six engine; abbreviated I6 or L6) is a piston engine with six cylinders arranged in a straight line...
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    The AMC straight-6 engine is a family of straight-six engines produced by American Motors Corporation (AMC) and used in passenger cars and Jeep vehicles...
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    cars than straight engines (for engines with fewer than six cylinders) and V engines (for engines with six or more cylinders). Flat engines are more common...
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  • the 'bank angle'. Engines with multiple banks are shorter than straight engines of the same size, and will often have better engine balance characteristics...
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    engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine where two banks of six cylinders are arranged in a V configuration around a common crankshaft. V12 engines are...
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  • Thumbnail for Iron Duke engine
    The Iron Duke engine (also called 151, 2500, Pontiac 2.5, and Tech IV) is a 151 cu in (2.5 L) straight-4 piston engine built by the Pontiac Motor Division...
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    The RB engine is an oversquare 2.0–3.0 L straight-6 four-stroke gasoline engine from Nissan, originally produced from 1985 to 2004. The RB followed the...
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    designed for a four-cylinder engine.[citation needed] Early VR6 engines had two valves per cylinder (for a total of twelve valves) and used one camshaft...
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  • diesel engines were produced by Nissan in a range of configurations from three to twelve cylinders, all sharing the same internal dimensions. The engines were...
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  • Thumbnail for Daimler Straight-Eight engines
    Daimler Straight-Eight engines were eight-cylinder in-line petrol engines made by the Daimler Company to power the largest and most expensive cars in...
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  • Thumbnail for Toyota AZ engine
    The Toyota AZ engine family is a straight-4 piston engine series. The AZ series uses an aluminium engine block with cast iron cylinder liners and aluminium...
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    A W12 engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine where either three banks of four cylinders, or four banks of three cylinders are arranged in a W configuration...
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    A U engine is a piston engine made up of two separate straight engines (complete with separate crankshafts) placed side-by-side and coupled to a shared...
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    The Packard Twelve was a range of V12-engined luxury automobiles built by the Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. The car was built from model...
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    vehicles: In-line or straight engine – where two, three, four, five, six, and even eight cylinders are placed in a single plane. V engine – where two, four...
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  • produced diesel engines since the 1970s. Engines that are currently produced [when?] are listed in the article below, while engines no longer in production...
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    a straight-6 automobile engine produced from 1954 to 1971. Unlike the Austin-designed A-Series and B-Series engines, it came from the Morris Engines drawing...
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    The TVR Speed Six was the name of a naturally aspirated straight-six engine manufactured from 1999 to 2007 by British car manufacturer TVR, and used in...
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    A reciprocating engine, more often known as a piston engine, is a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert high temperature...
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    towers basically bisecting the center of the air cleaner The straight-6 DOHC XK engine clearly sits behind the front axle of an FMR Jaguar E-Type All...
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  • compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine). This contrasts with engines using spark plug-ignition of the...
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    The Wankel engine (/ˈvʌŋkəl/, VAHN-kəl) is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion...
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  • This list of GM engines encompasses all engines manufactured by General Motors and used in its cars. When General Motors was created in 1908, it started...
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  • of engine regulations. Formulae limiting engine capacity had been used in Grand Prix racing on a regular basis since after World War I. The engine formulae...
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  • Thumbnail for BMW 5 Series (E28)
    produced with straight-four and straight-six petrol engines until 1983, when the 524td model became the first BMW car to be powered by a diesel engine. It was...
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  • Thumbnail for Duesenberg Model A
    series production in the United States with a straight-eight engine. Officially known as the Duesenberg Straight Eight, the Model A was first shown in late...
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    a mid-engine layout describes the placement of an automobile engine in front of the rear-wheel axles, but behind the front axle. The mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive...
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  • Thumbnail for Austin 12/4
    The Austin Light Twelve-Four is a car that was produced by Austin from 1933 until 1939. It was replaced in 1939 by a completely new car also called the...
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  • Thumbnail for Internal combustion engine
    An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion...
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