Internal combustion or electric powerplants built to drive a road vehicle, from early production automobile engines through the high volume mass produced V8s and flat engines that powered generations of cars. Belongs here: any named automotive engine family or specific engine model built for cars, trucks or motorcycles. Does not belong here: aircraft, locomotive or marine engines, which follow different design constraints and are grouped separately even where the underlying technology (a piston engine, a turbine) is shared.
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1. Wikipedia: Internal combustion engine
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The first modern internal combustion engine, the Otto engine, was designed in 1876 by the German engineer Nicolaus Otto.
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