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• Petrol engine
  ...engine]] with [[spark-ignition engine|spark-ignition]], designed to run on petrol ([[gasoline]]) and similar volatile fuels. ...e compression (although some modern petrol engines now use cylinder-direct petrol injection).
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• Naturally-aspirated engine
  ...urbocharged]] nor [[supercharged]]. Most [[automobile]] gasoline (petrol) engines are naturally-aspirated, though turbochargers and superchargers have enjoye ...useful in very high performance cars, aircraft and helicopters. Many N/A engines today make use of [[Variable Length Intake Manifold]]s to harness Helmholtz
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• Dry sump
  ...oil]] management method for [[four-stroke cycle|four-stroke]] and large [[two-stroke]] piston [[internal combustion engine]]s that uses a secondary external res Four-stroke engines are lubricated by oil which is pumped into various bearings; and thereafter
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• Single cylinder engine
  ...st powerful engines. They require more flywheel effect than multi-cylinder engines and the rotating mass is relatively large, restricting acceleration and sha Early automobiles and motorcycles were all single cylinder, as were engines for marine use. The configuration remains in widespread use in dirt bikes
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• W16 engine
  ...[[internal combustion engine]] in a [[W engine|W configuration]]. All W16 engines consist of two 'offset double-row' [[cylinder bank|banks]] of eight cylinde ...roup's design is a stretched form of its [[list of Volkswagen Group petrol engines#W12|W12 engine]], which is itself based on technology from its [[VR6 engine
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• W8 engine
  The [[list of discontinued Volkswagen Group petrol engines#W8|Volkswagen Group W8 engine]] was installed [[longitudinal engine|longitu ...gine|VR6]] engines, leading to cost reduction in one of the most expensive engines Volkswagen Passenger Cars has ever produced.
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• Straight-3 engine
  ...p://www.autozine.org/technical_school/engine/smooth1.htm#Inline 3-cylinder engines|work=Mark Wan - AutoZine Technical School|publisher=AutoZine.org|accessdate ...]]. The inner cylinder is offset 180° from the outer cylinders. In these engines, cylinder #1 fires 180°. Later, cylinder #2 fires, and then 180° later c
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• W engine
  ...W12 engine]]. [[Lorraine-Dietrich|Lorraine]] built the 12Ed and 18Ka aero-engines of 450 horsepower (336 kW; 456 PS) and 650 horsepower (485 kW; 659 PS) in The major advantage of these engines is packaging; that is, they contain high numbers of cylinders but are relat
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• U engine
  ...ign is its ability to share common parts with straight engines. However, V engines with offset banks can also share straight engine parts (except for the cran ===Petrol===
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• Lloyd (Germany)
  ...[internal combustion engine|engined]] models followed in 1908 with 3685 cc engines, but few were made. In 1914 the company merged with [[Hansa|Hansa]] to beco |2 cylinders<br>two-stroke
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• Straight-5 engine
  ...tro]] racing car. [[Fiat]] also makes use of a five-cylinder engine (both petrol and diesel) in larger Fiat, [[Alfa Romeo]] and [[Lancia]] models. ...nes, while maintaining the fuel economy and "pep" of smaller four cylinder engines. Five cylinder turbos have been used on more than one occasion in sport an
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• Mazda SKY-D engine
  *[[List of Mazda engines]] ...sky-clean-engines-transmiss/ Tokyo 2009: Mazda previews next-gen SKY clean engines, transmission and Kiyora concept]
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• Reciprocating engine
  ...anded or "exhausted" gases are removed from the cylinder by this [[Stroke (engines)|stroke]]. The exception is the Stirling engine, which repeatedly heats and ...r less in model engines up to several thousand cubic centimetres in ships' engines.
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• Alfa Romeo 2000
  ===Engines=== *2.0&nbsp;L (1975&nbsp;cc) petrol, 105&nbsp;PS (Berlina)
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• Crossley
  More than 100,000 Crossley oil and gas engines have been built. ...ester city centre, including manufacturing pumps, presses, and small steam engines. William (''Sir'' William from 1910) joined his brother shortly after the p
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• Manifold vacuum
  ...the engine, and hence of the unused power capacity in the engine. In some engines, the manifold vacuum is also used as an [[Automobile ancillary power|auxili ...] [[gasoline engine]]s using the [[otto cycle]] or the [[two-stroke engine|two-stroke]] cycle; [[diesel engine]]s do not have throttle plates).
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• 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
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• Compression ratio
  ...est capacity. It is a fundamental specification for many common combustion engines. ...d combustion chamber when the [[piston]] is at the bottom of its [[stroke (engines)|stroke]], and the volume of the combustion chamber when the piston is at t
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• BMW N62B48 engine
  |Type = ''Gasoline (Petrol)'' ...''' is the latest iteration of the [[BMW]]'s [[BMW N62 engine|N62 series]] engines. It comes in two versions, both displacing 4.8&nbsp;L (4799&nbsp;cc/292&nbs
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• Cylinder
  ...o been tried, so far unsuccessfully, except with low-speed "oilless" steam engines.[http://www.www.spilling.de/uk/index-steamengines.htm.com] A cylinder's dis ...for compressional sealing and one to seal the [[motor oil|oil]] (In steam engines only compressional sealing rings are used of which there can be from two to
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• Mitsubishi 8A8 engine
  |Type = ''Petrol'' * [[List of Mitsubishi engines]]
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• Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid
  | Two/four hub-mounted electric motors, driven by petrol engine. With 'hybrid' technology, and 'in-wheel engines' becoming ever more prominent within the automotive industry, touted as bei
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• Gottlieb Daimler
  ...gine]]s and [[automobile]] development. He invented the first high-speed [[petrol engine]] and the first four-wheel [[automobile]]. ...kind of locomotion device. They designed in 1885 a precursor of the modern petrol engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, considered the firs
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• Ford SHO V6 engine
  |Type = ''Petrol'' The SHO engines share a common bell housing pattern with the following Ford engines: the 2.3/2.5&nbsp;L FWD [[Ford HSC engine|HSC]] I4, the 3.0&nbsp;L FWD/RWD
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• VR6 engine
  ...- instead of the more common 45°, 60°, or 90° as found on conventional Vee engines. ...inuation of Lancia's design practice dating back to the 1920s). Staggered engines are an amenable further development, with both uneven cylinder numbers, and
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• Triumph Slant-4 engine
  |Type = ''Petrol'' ...gine for [[Saab Automobile|Saab]], as a replacement for their aging [[Saab two-stroke]] and [[Ford Taunus V4 engine|V4]] units. When that development proved too
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• Flat-12 engine
  ...ly opposed engines ([[flat engine|boxer]]), but rather 180° [[V engine|V]]-engines. A true boxer has one crank pin per piston, while in the 180° V-engine, t [[Henry Meadows]] built a flat-12 petrol engine in World War II for the British Covenanter tank. In 1954, [[Panhard]
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• Common rail
  ...s a modern variant of direct [[fuel injection]] system for [[petrol engine|petrol]] and [[diesel engine]]s. On diesel engines, it features a high-pressure (over 1,000 bar/15,000 psi) [[fuel rail]] feed
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• Kia Cee'd concept
  ...h as a five-door [[hatchback]], with a choice of five [[engine]]s (three [[petrol]] and two [[diesel]]), four [[car model|trim]] levels (LX, EX and TX) and e ==Engines==
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• Škoda Felicia
  ...a more modern appearance, with a redesigned frontend, and a wider range of engines. A serial production begin in the fall of 1994. ...kW), and two engines sourced from VW, a 75&nbsp;PS (55&nbsp;kW) 1.6&nbsp;L petrol engine and a 64&nbsp;PS (47&nbsp;kW) 1.9 SDI [[diesel]]. A five-speed gearb
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• PSA Peugeot Citroën
  The factory was originally constructed to build aircraft engines for World War II. After the war it became the headquarters of the [[Rootes There is also a new agreement with PSA and [[BMW]]; the new engines designed by this joint venture will replace current PSA's [[PSA_TU_engine|T
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• 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-
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• Gasoline direct injection
  ...and [[four-stroke cycle|four-]] stroke [[petrol engine]]s. The [[gasoline|petrol/gasoline]] is highly pressurised, and injected via a [[common rail]] fuel l ...engine, which greatly improves efficiency, and reduces 'pumping losses' in engines without a throttle plate. Engine speed is controlled by the [[engine contr
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• 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]].
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• Benz & Cie.
  ...ie. Quickly growing to twenty-five employees, it soon began to produce gas engines as well. ...nz, had a profound effect on Benz's success. Roger had been building Benz engines under a license from Karl Benz for several years, and in 1888, decided to a
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• 345 HEMI engine
  |Type = Gasoline / Petrol [[Category:Engines|HEMI 345]]
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• Hanomag
  ...y called Eisen-Giesserei und Maschinenfabrik Hannover to build small steam engines. They soon started making farm machinery and in 1846 built their first rail Petrol engined vehicles followed in 1912 with a line of farm tractors.
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• Maudslay Motor Company
  ...the eminent engineer [[Henry Maudslay]] to make marine internal combustion engines. He was joined by his sons Cyril and Reginald Walter but the latter soon le The engines did not sell very well and in 1902 they made their first engine intended fo
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• Octane rating
  The '''octane rating''' is a measure of the resistance of [[petrol]] and other [[fuel]]s to [[autoignition]] in [[spark plug|spark-ignition]] ...-13-066997-0 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref> This does not mean that the petrol contains just iso-octane and heptane in these proportions, but that it has
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• Fiat Stilo
  ...nder petrol <br> 1,800 cc four-cylinder petrol <br> 2,400 cc five-cylinder petrol <br> 1.9 JTD diesel <br> 1.9 JTD 16v diesel ...ilable in three-door, five-door and Multiwagon variants, with a variety of engines and models geared either towards economy or performance. Boasting high equi
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• Karl Benz
  ...d pistons, which continues to be the design principle for high performance engines used in [[motorsport]]s. ...concentrated all his efforts on creating a reliable gas [[two-stroke cycle|two-stroke engine]], based on [[Nikolaus Otto]]'s design of the ''[[four-stroke cycle|
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• History of the internal combustion engine
  ...rary/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm?rd=1 |title=The History of the Automobile - Gas Engines |publisher=About.com |date=2009-09-11 |accessdate=2009-10-19}}</ref> ...ysicist Sadi Carnot established the thermodynamic theory of idealized heat engines. This scientifically established the need for compression to increase the d
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• Land Rover 1/2 ton Lightweight
  | 2.25L I4 Petrol<br>2.25L I4 Diesel | Petrol - 81bhp @ 4250rpm, 124lb/ft (168Nm) @ 2500rpm<br>Diesel - 67bhp @ 4000rpm,
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• Jaguar XK6 engine
  |Type = ''Petrol'' ...and design, extending to the construction and testing of several prototype engines from as early as 1943.
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• Turbocharged Direct Injection
  ...Motor<ref name=VW-Industrial>{{citation|url=http://www.mi-uk.com/products/engines/downloads/sdi19industrial.pdf|title=The SDI 1.9 Industrial Engine|format=PD ...e [[torque]]<ref name=VWAG/> than its non-turbo and non-direct injection [[petrol engine]]d counterpart.
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• Wilhelm Maybach
  ...with [[Gottlieb Daimler]], developed light, high-speed internal combustion engines suitable for land, water and air use. These were fitted to the world's firs ...the German war effort in 1940, ceasing automotive production in favour of engines for the Panzer and Tiger tanks.
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• Frederick Lanchester
  === Gas engines === In 1890 Lanchester patented a self-starting device for gas engines. He subsequently sold the rights for his invention to the [[Crossley|Crossl
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• Peugeot 407
  |Engine = Petrol and diesel engines:<br>[[Inline-4]], [[V6]]<br>1.7-2.9&nbsp;L, 86-155&nbsp;kW ...nts, with both [[Diesel engine|Diesel]] and [[petrol engine]]s. The petrol engines range from 1.8 to 3.0-litres displacement, whereas the diesels are 1.6, 2.0
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• Formula Three
  ...rationing which continued for a number of years and home-built 500 cc cars engines were intended to be accessible to the "impecunious enthusiast". The first p ...ntroduced in 1964 based on the Formula Junior rules and ran to 1970. These engines (a short-stroke unit based on the [[Ford Anglia]]<ref>Gauld, Graham, "Ford"
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• Frederick W. Lanchester
  === Gas engines === In 1890 Lanchester patented a self-starting device for gas engines. He subsequently sold the rights for his invention to the [[Crossley|Crossl
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