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WELCOME
from Otto One (1-45)
by ottomagazine
‘IN 1861, NIKOLAUS Otto successfully developed the four-stroke internal combustion engine, unleashing generations of engineers, designers, makers, customisers, racers and roadtrippers. Odds are, every time an engine is cranked into life, another car enthusiast is born.
As we’re frogmarched toward the inevitable electric age of motoring (and in truth its many benefits), we should not forget the role Otto’s work played, and continues to play, in facilitating mass personal mobilisation. The four-stroke internal combustion engine is, after all, at the heart of nearly all of our motoring memories.
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Welcome to OTTO: a celebration of people, and the machines that move us. Those involuntary noises you make when you see an Alitalia-liveried Lancia Stratos, a Ferrari F40 or a ’69 Camaro; that feeling you get watching footage of Bellof blitzing the ’Ring in a 956, or Loeb obliterating Pikes Peak in a rebodied Le Mans prototype; or that admiration you feel listening to the back story of Chip Foose, Daniel Simon or Leonardo Fioravanti.
For every person who has ever thought of a motorised machine as more than mere transport, this is for you.
–WAYNE BATTY
