What's The Prettiest Engine Ever Made?

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Raphael Orlove
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What always weirds me out about modern car design is that you can have a completely futuristic car body, and then you lift the hood and the engine still looks like it came out of the 19th century.

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Not all engines look aesthetically bad, though. There are ones with some cohesive style and others with charming complexity, like Lamborghini’s old V12.

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I’m particularly fond of how it looked in the four-seat Espada of the ‘60s and ‘70s, with its carburetors and air filter covers laid on their sides. It looks like it could be a space ship.

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What engine do you think looks the best?

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Photo Credit: Lamborghini

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