It's not hard to find very small mass-produced gasoline engines, but diesel is another story. Diesel engines are more expensive to manufacture, so a small-capacity diesel in a cheap car can push up ...

In the late 1800s, Rudolf Diesel invented a namesake internal combustion engine that used compression rather than sparks to realize the internal combustion process. The diesel engine would change the ...

The inline-6 engine layout has its fans in the gas world, but it's the de facto standard design among diesel aficionados. Hardly surprising, as these engines are less complex than any V layout and ...

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