Daimler-Benz DB 601, a V12 reciprocating aircraft engine of the 1930s and 1940s
No. 601 Squadron RAF | Daimler-Benz DB 601 | Batallón de Inteligencia 601 | Minuscule 601 | DB 601 |
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.