As General Motors last week rolled out its 1957 Chevrolet, the big news was hidden under the hood. Chevy is the first U.S. automaker to bring out a fuel-injection engine for standard production-line cars. It is a 283-h.p: V-8 engine, turning up nearly 60 h.p. more than last year's most powerful Chevy engine. It will be standard equipment on Chevrolet's Corvette sports car and optional (estimated at $190 extra cost) on every other model. Instead of using a carburetor, the fuel-injection system shoots gasoline and air directly into each cylinder, thus gives faster...
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