In the first years of the century, it was clubs of automobile owners – rather than any fledgling carmakers – that staged reliability and endurance tests, pitting motor cars against each other and against rivals powered by electricity or steam. The
petrol engines won – they just kept running.
在20世紀頭幾年內，進行可靠性和耐久性測試，在內燃機汽車之間展開比賽，還和電動或蒸汽汽車進行競賽的，是汽車車主俱樂部，而不是什么初出茅廬的汽車制造商。獲勝的是汽油發動機——它們就是一個勁地向前跑。
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