Popping the hood of a new Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing must have been quite an experience for most enthusiasts in the Fifties. For starters, the 3.0-liter straight-six sat canted at a fifty degree ...
The internal combustion engines that power our vehicles have come a long way in the past several decades. Not only have they become more efficient and better for the environment, but car engines have ...
Karl Benz is typically credited with designing and building the first automobile powered by an internal combustion (IC) engine, but it was almost 80 years earlier, in 1807, that a Swiss by the name of ...