Automobile Use
BSA made a V-twin car starting in 1921, then introduced a three-wheeler in 1929.
V-twin engines, adapted from motorcycles, were featured in Morgan three-wheelers made from 1911 to 1939. A number of Morgan-inspired models are produced today including the Triking Cyclecar, which uses a Moto-Guzzi V-twin; the Ace Cycle Car, which uses a V-twin Harley-Davidson engine; and the JZR which uses engines from the Honda CX series.
Mazda made 356 cc and 571 cc V-twins beginning in 1960 for the Mazda R360.
- V-twin engines installed in automobiles
-
JAP water-cooled V-twin engine installed in front of the radiator of a 1934 Morgan Super Sports three-wheeled microcar.
-
Air-cooled Mazda V-twin engine installed in the back of a Mazda R360 kei car.
Read more about this topic: V-twin Engine
Famous quotes containing the word automobile:
“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain—at least in a poor country like Russia—and his vanity begins to swell out like his tyres. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)