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Contrast this excerpt from the infamous letter from Clyde Barrow to Henry Ford: http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/barrow.asp "...For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got every other car skinned, and even if my business hasen't[sic] been strickly[sic] legal it don't hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you got in the V8."
With this:
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/police-blotter/troopers-ask-for-help-finding-xbox-game-thieves-20151125 "...The thieves were seen fleeing the store in a gray Toyota Prius."
Something just feels wrong when thieves use a Prius as their getaway car!
[What is the strangest getaway vehicle you have ever heard of? -Ed.]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @03:31AM
The only reason is to squeeze more cylinders in a compact space, otherwise they'd have radial engines like the old airplanes. There's also Ford V4 engines in British cars, they look exactly like a small block Ford V8 with the rear 4 cylinders cut off. Then there's Mazda rotory engines, discontinued because of apex seal problems.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 02 2015, @06:38PM
Yeah, I was thinking about the radial airplane piston engines. But with the V-12s and Straight8's, I oft would wonder if the larger number of smaller displacement cylinders produced more power more gently. If you have even seen an old "make and break" farm engine, the huge one cylinder type with a massive flywheel counter-weight, running at speed, you can see that vibration can be a major problem.
And the Mazda rotary! The Wankel engine? Seems that internal combustion is kind of like batteries, not much progress, and certain nothing revolutionary that caught on in a hundred years or so.