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世纪头几年内，进行可靠性和耐久性测试，在内燃机汽车之间展开比赛，还和电动或蒸汽汽车进行竞赛的，是汽车车主俱乐部，而不是什么初出茅庐的汽车制造商。获胜的是汽油发动机——它们就是一个劲地向前跑。
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