在前不久的美国纽约华京斯谷五百英里汽车大赛中,洛娜号赛车获第三十五名。值得大书特书的是,这辆赛车装了一台一大半由塑料制造的发动机。这台发动机的研制人是主持新泽西州费尔朗多力马达研究公司的何兹堡先生,他是在美国石油化学公司的支持下研制这辆赛车的。该发动机是四缸机,每分钟旋转九千五百转时,马力为三百一十八。大赛时,它绕跑道行驶近两小时,时速为二百三十四公里。这台发动机除曲轴、凸轮轴、气门、气缸套及燃烧室等为金属件外,其它均是塑料件。净重一百六十八磅(约七十六点三六公斤),其中金属件重六十八磅,而同级传统发动机的 Lorna won the 35th in the 500-Mile Valley Motor Show in New York, near New York. What deserves a special book is that this car is fitted with an engine made mostly of plastic. The engine was developed by Mr. Hertzberg who chaired the Ferrando Force Motors Research Company in New Jersey and was developed with the support of American Petrochemical Company. The engine is a four-cylinder engine, rotating nine thousand five hundred revolutions per minute, horsepower is three hundred and eighteen. At the competition, it circumnavigate the runway for nearly two hours at a speed of 234 kilometers per hour. This engine in addition to the crankshaft, camshaft, valve, cylinder liner and combustion chamber for the metal parts, the other are plastic parts. Net weight of 168 pounds (about 76.36 kilograms), of which the metal piece weighs 68 pounds, while the same level of traditional engine