Is the car's engine arranged in L or V?
Straight engine: its cylinder is arranged in a row, that is, a column, hence its name. The current inline engines are mainly L3, L4, L5, L6. Straight into the engine cylinder lined up, cylinder, cylinder head and crankshaft has the advantages of simple structure, low manufacturing cost, low speed torque characteristic, less fuel consumption, compact size, wide application, the disadvantage is the low power.
V type: V type engine cylinder engine is about 22 with the formation of a certain angle, from the side looks like "V", so called V type engine. The V type engine compared with inline engines, shorten the body length and height, increases the cylinder body stiffness, reduce the weight of the engine, but the increase of the width of the engine, and the shape is complex, difficult processing, generally used 6 cylinder and 6 cylinder engines above. Now the V engines are mainly V6, V8, V10, V12, these 4.
The current engines are: inline engines, V engines, W engines, horizontally opposed engines. Another special is the rotor engine, this is Mazda's patent
In addition, as the piston crankshaft moves in the left and right, the vibration is counteracted each other, thereby achieving low noise and low fuel consumption. There are horizontally opposed 4 cylinders and 6 cylinders at present
