The Detroit Diesel 8V-71 let this bus hit 280 hp at 2,100 rpm and with a 140-gallon gas tank, it could travel quite a way before having to stop for a fill-up.

Detroit Diesel's 2-stroke diesel engines were eventually replaced with 4-stroke models, but parent company MTU still sells refurbished parts. ... 71, 92 and 149 engines all halted production.

Detroit Diesel started building 71 Series engines in 1938, though it only offered them in an inline configuration at the time. It wasn’t until 1957 that the company would branch out and place ...

The Detroit Diesel 71-series engine was built from the mid-1930s through the mid-1990s in configurations ranging from an inline-four-cylinder all the way up to a V24.

This joining was officially called the GM 6046 engine, but it was built using a pair of Detroit Diesel 6-71 motors. This twin-Diesel engine was able to produce 410 hp for the World War II-era tank.