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Show Cost of Running a Car Not Fixed by Cylinders Engineers have debated the relative cost of operation of an eight-cylinder motor as against the six. Here is the comment of one expert: "The expense ex-pense of running a motor doesn't depend de-pend so much on the number of cylinders cyl-inders as it does on the number of cubic inches of piston displacement. "Take a given piston displacement and divide it up any way you want to, into two cylinders, four cylinders six or eight cylinders and you JfH use just about the same amount of Ea"Of course, the greater the number of cylinders, the ir.5re overlapping of power impulses occurs and the smoother smooth-er the operation of the motor But don't make the mistake of thinking that additional cylinders mean additional addi-tional expense, unless the piston displacement dis-placement is increased." |