If a car is a living breathing machine (and what great one isn't?) the engine is its heart
+Jalopnik salutes the engineers that have created some of the great powerplants. I would have added Rudolf Diesel but i'm a compression ignition fan?
The Ten Greatest Engine Designers In Automotive History
Geniuses like Nikolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel came up with the bases of internal combustion and industrialists like Soichiro Honda built whole companies on brilliant engine designs. Still, it’s these ten engineers who got the closest to engine perfection.