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Engine Details: Internal Combustion Engine Cylinders Crankcase Pistons Crankshaft

The inline-four engine layout has all four cylinders mounted in a straight line within the crankcase. It is a popular configuration for economy cars due to its mechanical simplicity. However, it can cause minor vibrations in smaller engines that get worse as engine size increases. Today, the inline-four engine is the most common configuration in modern cars, while the V6 engine is the second most popular. Between 2005 and 2008, the proportion of new vehicles with inline-four cylinder engines rose from 30% to 47% as automakers aimed to boost fuel efficiency.

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Engine Details: Internal Combustion Engine Cylinders Crankcase Pistons Crankshaft

The inline-four engine layout has all four cylinders mounted in a straight line within the crankcase. It is a popular configuration for economy cars due to its mechanical simplicity. However, it can cause minor vibrations in smaller engines that get worse as engine size increases. Today, the inline-four engine is the most common configuration in modern cars, while the V6 engine is the second most popular. Between 2005 and 2008, the proportion of new vehicles with inline-four cylinder engines rose from 30% to 47% as automakers aimed to boost fuel efficiency.

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ENGINE DETAILS
The 9 9  9  or
 9  9  is an internal combustion engine with all
four cylinders mounted in a straight line, or plane along thecrankcase. The single bank of cylinders may
be oriented in either a vertical or an inclined plane with all the pistons driving a common crankshaft.
Where it is inclined, it is sometimes called a
 . In a specification chart or when an abbreviation is
used, an inline-four engine is listed either as  or (for g g, to avoid confusion between the digit
1 and the letter I).

The inline-four layout is in perfect primary balance and confers a degree of mechanical simplicity which
makes it popular for economy cars.[1] However, despite its simplicity, it suffers from a secondary
imbalance which causes minor vibrations in smaller engines. These vibrations become worse as engine
size and power increase, so the more powerful engines used in larger cars generally are more complex
designs with more than four cylinders.

Today almost all manufacturers of four cylinder engines for automobilles produce the inline-four layout,
with Subaru's flat-four being a notable exception, and so 9  is synonymous with and a more
widely used term than inline-four. The inline-four is the most common engine configuration in modern
[2]
cars, while the V6 is the second most popular. In the late 2000s, with auto manufacturers making efforts
to increase fuel efficiency and reduce emissions, due to the high price of oil and the economic recession,
the proportion of new vehicles with four cylinder engines (largely of the inline-four type) has risen from 30
percent to 47 percent between 2005 and 2008, particularly in mid-size vehicles where a decreasing
number of buyers have chosen the V6 performance option.
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