It's a car-culture legend, passed down from generation to generation, that an angry person with a bag of sugar can leave your car dead on its axles. Add sugar to gas tank, turn its fuel into a sugary petroleum mess, and wait for the owner to start the car and blow the engine.

It's also a myth.

Sugar doesn't dissolve in gasoline. If you add it to gasoline, it stays in granular form.

"We have not seen an engine damaged or destroyed by sugar in a gas tank, nor heard of any truly plausible or established cases of this happening," says Mohammad Fatouraie, manager of engineering at Bosch, one of the auto industry's main suppliers of fuel system components.

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