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• Mercedes-Benz M120 engine
  |Type = Gasoline * [[List of Mercedes-Benz engines]]
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• Octane rating
  ...d has been restricted, and its use is currently limited mostly to aviation gasoline. ...resistance. Depending on the composition of the fuel, the MON of a modern gasoline will be about 8 to 10 points lower than the RON. Normally, fuel specificat
  18 KB (2,775 words) - 01:08, 8 July 2010
• 392 HEMI engine
  |Type = Gasoline (Petrol) ..., except for the huge land yachts it came in originally in 1957-58. These engines look out of place in a 1960-70's musclecar. They look good in a 1930's-ear
  3 KB (463 words) - 11:27, 20 September 2009
• Siegfried Marcus
  ...d combustibles and made him the first man propelling a vehicle by means of gasoline. Today, this car is well known as “The first Marcus Car”. ...type was given to Marcus in Germany. This design was used for all further engines and, of course, the famous “Second Marcus Car” of 1888/89. It was this
  5 KB (806 words) - 09:26, 2 June 2009
• Suzuki Forenza
  ...els are available with the following three gasoline-powered [[4-cylinder]] engines: ...badge engineered versions. All of them are gasoline-powered [[4-cylinder]] engines.
  8 KB (1,214 words) - 15:45, 4 January 2007
• Cone CVTs
  ...oduced all over the world, with a power range that goes from 60 to 200 Hp, gasoline and diesel.
  3 KB (470 words) - 12:09, 9 April 2008
• Automobile self starter
  ...ull away immediately, or else risk a broken wrist, or worse. Moreover, as engines evolved, they became larger and compression ratios increased, making hand c ...e this design weighs less, it has also been adapted to some light aircraft engines, where minimizing weight is very important.
  7 KB (1,055 words) - 22:37, 27 June 2006
• Rudolf Diesel
  ...theory revolves around the German military, which was beginning to use his engines on their submarines—something which Mr. Diesel opposed—and perhaps fear ...el engine became widespread in many other applications, such as stationary engines, submarines, ships, and much later, locomotives.
  6 KB (908 words) - 09:36, 8 February 2010
• Catalytic converter
  ...at the stoichiometric point. This is 14.7 parts Oxygen to 1 part fuel for gasoline (the ratio for [[Propane]], [[Natural Gas]], and [[Ethanol]] fuels is sligh ...on "Large [[spark plug|Spark]] [[ignition system|Ignition]]" engines. LSI engines are used in forklifts, aerial boom lifts, ice resurfacing machines, and con
  22 KB (3,502 words) - 10:56, 28 March 2010
• Mitsubishi 6G engine
  |Type = '''Gasoline''' ...in some versions, and the 2.5 and 3.0 L versions were also available with gasoline direct injection. Modern versions feature a one-piece cast crankshaft and c
  7 KB (939 words) - 18:46, 4 November 2009
• Automobile emissions control
  ...he night-time temperature to the hottest temperatures of the day mean that gasoline in the tank evaporates, increasing the pressure inside the tank above atmos ##''Running losses'': the escape of gasoline vapors from the hot engine.
  10 KB (1,564 words) - 03:22, 26 May 2010
• Léon Bollée
  * petrol (gasoline) cars, Amédée Bollée (son), built between 1896 and 1923. ...d attempt by buying the factory at Le Mans to make cars with four-cylinder engines very similar to those of the [[Morris Cowley]] and [[Morris Oxford]].
  3 KB (480 words) - 06:19, 19 February 2007
• Poppet valve
  ...y a spring, and are used in some high speed motorcycle and [[auto racing]] engines, eliminating 'valve float' at high RPM. ...t speed in a [[four stroke cycle|four-stroke]] engine. On high performance engines (e.g., [[Ferrari]] cars), the camshaft is movable and the cams have a varyi
  6 KB (949 words) - 11:39, 11 March 2009
• Drive by wire
  ...now widely used. Electronic throttle control is also in widespread use for gasoline engine control. Purely electronic brake and steering systems have yet to fi
  5 KB (775 words) - 03:58, 22 September 2010
• Mazda Z engine
  ...dropped its own ''[[Ford Zeta engine|Zeta]]'' [[Ford Zetec engine|Zetec]] engines in favor of Mazda's, naming the resulting engine the [[Ford Duratec engine| ...MZR are [[DOHC]] [[multi-valve|16-valve]] [[water-cooled]] [[piston engine|engines]].
  7 KB (1,083 words) - 14:10, 29 October 2008
• Internal Combustion Engine
  ...]]s and many [[gas turbine]]s are also very definitely internal combustion engines. ...ke. The most significant distinction between '''modern internal combustion engines''' and the early designs is the use of compression and in particular of in-
  31 KB (4,688 words) - 09:27, 21 August 2010
• Radial engine
  ...during the 1930s, before the introduction of modern-type opposed-cylinder engines. ...and lifters on a cam plate which is concentric with the crankshaft. A few engines utilize [[sleeve valve]]s instead.
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• Gasoline direct injection
  ...our-stroke cycle|four-]] stroke [[petrol engine]]s. The [[gasoline|petrol/gasoline]] is highly pressurised, and injected via a [[common rail]] fuel line direc In some applications, gasoline direct injection enables a stratified fuel charge (ultra [[lean burn]]) com
  26 KB (3,828 words) - 09:08, 21 August 2009
• Diesel-Electric Hybrid
  ...ota Prius]]. A diesel engine typically costs around 10 percent more than a gasoline-powered engine of similar power, even without the cost of adding an electri Diesel engines in general are not widely used for passenger cars in the United States, as
  18 KB (2,608 words) - 02:08, 19 May 2009
• Hydrogen vehicle
  ...gen is "burned" in engines in fundamentally the same method as traditional gasoline cars. ...less to atmospheric radiative forcing per mile driven than such convention engines. Methods of hydrogen production that do not use fossil fuel would be more
  23 KB (3,421 words) - 22:58, 21 August 2009

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