12 Obscure Diesel Engines That Made Automotive History
It may be a main power source for modern work trucks, but these obscure diesel engines show compression ignition designs have taken lots of forms in the past.
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It may be a main power source for modern work trucks, but these obscure diesel engines show compression ignition designs have taken lots of forms in the past.
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