Balance and Smoothness
The inline-four engine is much smoother than one-, two-, and three-cylinder engines, and this has resulted in it becoming the engine of choice for most economy cars, although it can be found in some sports cars as well. However, the inline-four is not a fully balanced configuration.
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Famous quotes containing the words balance and, balance and/or smoothness:
“Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s balance and keep afloat.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The almost universal bareness and smoothness of the landscape were as agreeable as novel, making it so much more like the deck of a vessel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)