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• Inline engine
  * In [[automobile|automotive]] use it is used as a synonym for ''[[straight engine]]''. {{Automobile configurations}}
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• Cylinder bank
  ...ngine block]] to be built from a single piece of metal, which is machined. Engines often have more than one row of pistons, each with their own block, and the {{Automobile configurations}}
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• Giulio Alfieri
  ...Alfieri''' ([[July 10]] [[1924]] - [[March 20]] [[2002]]) was an Italian [[automobile]] [[engineer]], affiliated with [[Maserati]] in [[Modena]], [[Italy]] since ...rak]] and [[Citroën SM]] (1969). He also contributed to [[V12]] prototype engines intended for use in [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]]-[[Maserati]] for [[Formul
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• Straight-10
  ...a very long engine, and therefore straight-10 engines are not common in [[automobile]]s. ...(43,100kW) at a speed of 104RPM. Like the vast majority of marine diesel engines, it is capable of running on diesel or [[fuel oil|heavy fuel oil]], the lat
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• W18
  The only '''W18''' engines built to date powered the [[Bugatti EB 118]], [[Bugatti EB 218]] and [[Buga ...chnical_school/engine/tech_engine_packaging.htm#W18 Volkswagen's VR6 and W-engines]
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• V20
  Engines of this number of cylinders are not common, but this configuration was used V20 diesel engines have also been used in marine applications: Mercedes-Benz has produced one
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• Engine configuration
  For many [[automobile]] engines, the term '''block''' is interchangeable with engine in this context, for e ...been used for several unconnected designs. The ''[[H-4]]'' and ''[[H-6]]'' engines produced by [[Subaru]] are not [[H engine]]s at all, but [[boxer engine]]s.
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• Straight-9
  ...26, 32, Wasa32LN, 38, 46 and 46F series. The 9 cylinder versions of these engines develop between 1620 and 51480 Kw (2170 - 69040 hp). {{Automobile configurations}}
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• Aurelio Lampredi
  ...ini]] before World War II, and then joined [[Reggiane]] to design aircraft engines. ...[[1947]] but returned to Ferrari at the beginning of [[1948]]. Lampredi's engines were used as large [[naturally-aspirated]] alternatives to the diminutive [
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• W16
  ...ocating engine|piston engine]] in a [[W engine|W configuration]]. All W16 engines consist of four banks of four cylinders (two juxtaposed [[V8]] engine block Volkswagen Group currently produces W16s, based on two of its [[W8]] engines which are based on technology from the narrow-angle [[VR6]] engine. The na
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• H engine
  ...antage of the H configuration is to allow the building of reasonably short engines with more than 12 cylinders, their compact size being useful as [[aircraft ...ier|Rapier]], [[Napier Dagger|Dagger]] and [[Napier Sabre|Sabre]] airplane engines. Unlike the BRM and the Lycoming, the Sabre eventually matured into a super
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• V4 engine
  [[Lancia]] produced several [[Lancia V4 engine|narrow-angle V4 engines]] from the [[1920s]] through [[1960s]] for cars like the [[Lancia Lambda|La The [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] of Europe produced two totally different V4 engines with a [[balance shaft]], one in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and one in [[Ger
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• Grand tourer
  ...sometimes [[initialism|initialised]] '''[[GT]]''', is a high-performance [[automobile]] designed for long distance driving. Any such car could be considered to b ...front-mounted engines that leave more space for the cabin than mid-mounted engines. They also tend to have softer [[suspension (vehicle)|suspension]] to provi
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• Flat-4
  ...omentum. Flat engines with four or fewer cylinders are most commonly boxer engines. ...common configuration, but some brands of [[automobile]] have favored such engines and it is a common configuration for smaller [[aircraft engine]]s such as m
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• Straight-12
  ...a very long engine, and therefore straight-12 engines are not common in [[automobile|automobiles]], but it has been used for large military [[truck]]s. Also som {{Automobile configurations}}
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• Bugatti Type 1
  ...Bugatti]] and produced by [[Prinetti & Stucchi]] in [[1898]]. It had four engines, two on each side of the rear axle.
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• Straight-8
  ...such engines. [[ALFA Romeo]] were the first to react: in their racing car engines for the P2 and P3 and in their 8 C 2300/2600/2900 sports cars of [[Mille Mi ...Motor Company|Ford]] never adopted the straight-8, using [[V8]] or [[V12]] engines from the [[1930s]] on.
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• U engine
  ...gine''' is a [[piston engine]] made up of two separate [[straight engine]] engines (complete with separate crankshafts) joined by [[gear]]s. ...interest in this design is its ability to share common parts with Straight engines.
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• Square engine
  ...of a square-four engine as a pair of [[straight-twin]] (AKA parallel-twin) engines with their [[crankshaft]]s mated together using [[gear]]s to give a common ...t in favour of in-line, [[four-stroke]] designs, as at the time two stroke engines were quickly being superseded by more economical and reliable four strokes.
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