But the reality is that an in-line engine like this simply purrs more smoothly than V-shaped motors, and it revs just as freely as anything Honda has ever produced.

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In recent years, it extended a rail line to a point nearby the facility and it tested a large rocket engine at the facility in November 2010.

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Carrying too heavy a stress load is like running a car engine past the red line or leaving a toaster stuck in the 'on' position.

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This is the first year for the 6-series with the N55 engine, the twin-scroll turbo, 3.0-liter in-line six that so admirably muscles the 335i around.

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In its life the engine has worked on the Foxdale mines, the Snaefell Mountain Railway and the line to the internment camp at Knockaloe during World War I.

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