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For a very short period of time, automotive engineers in both the United States and Europe believed that increasing cylinder capacity while maintaining a 6-cylinder layout was the best way to increase power in production cars, but in 1914, Cadillac refuted this theory by introducing its first V8 L-head with a 90-degree cylinder bank and side-mounted valves. Without realizing it, the company had unleashed a real war among automakers, the winner of which would be the one who introduced the world to an internal combustion engine with the largest number of cylinders. In the new video by AutoTRENDS - the history of the emergence and development of multi-cylinder V12 and V16 engines in the United States and Europe... ✔Our VKontakte group: https://vk.com/avtotrendy