BGroot
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Car companies are first and foremost engine builders; it’s their reason for being.
The evidence is right there in the name: General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Bavarian Motor Werks, to rhyme off just a few.
Today’s high-tech engines still bear some resemblance to Nikolaus Otto’s four-stroke internal combustion engine of 1876. Despite almost 150 years of research, development and refinement, the principle of using a reciprocating piston to extract power from a controlled explosion endures.
Still, mistakes can happen. Some engines can.... READ MORE HERE
The evidence is right there in the name: General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Bavarian Motor Werks, to rhyme off just a few.
Today’s high-tech engines still bear some resemblance to Nikolaus Otto’s four-stroke internal combustion engine of 1876. Despite almost 150 years of research, development and refinement, the principle of using a reciprocating piston to extract power from a controlled explosion endures.
Still, mistakes can happen. Some engines can.... READ MORE HERE