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unusual facts about DB 601


DB 601

Daimler-Benz DB 601, a V12 reciprocating aircraft engine of the 1930s and 1940s


Mercedes-Benz 300SL

While not the first fuel-injected car - Mercedes engineers who had developed the principle for the DB 601 fighter aircraft engine had used fuel injection in the tiny 2-stroke Gutbrod they had designed after the War - it was the first to inject fuel directly into the cylinders.


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