Performance and reliability have made this engine design a total success over its long life.
Roughly $300 million would be spent over seven years on the engine design.
The straight-8 was the engine design of choice from the late 1920s until the mid-1950s.
In the next fifty years only a few small changes were made to the engine design.
I'll find engineering on the ship, and check out the engine design.
It was considered a benchmark engine design for its days.
The design was common on early engine designs, but has since fallen from use.
As might be expected, there is no free lunch in engine design.
Midway through the 2001 model year, the engine design was changed.
However, they had no experience with this engine design, and started a long series of tests to develop it.