Inline and V engines dominate modern combustion vehicle design. Each layout offers unique advantages in packaging, smoothness, cost, and performance. Here is how the two configurations differ and why ...

The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons rising and falling, a crankshaft spinning, a steam-age architecture ...

Cummins engines have earned a bit of a cult following over the decades — and for good reason. In the U.S., they're the iron workhorses found in everything from pickup trucks to massive semis, and they ...

Ford once sketched a road where an engine's pistons never saw oil and engines ran hotter on purpose. In a late‑1980s patent application filed and granted in Europe, the company described an "uncooled ...

There are any number of reasons you might find yourself on the hunt for a new V8 engine. Whether you're replacing a failed engine, upgrading a vehicle's current power output, or looking to drop a ...

Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “correct” answer is thus to combine both into a single ...

Engine knock is the sharp, metallic sound that cuts through the hum of a healthy engine. At its core, engine knock is a problem of timing. In a knocking engine, parts of the air-fuel mixture don't ...

A cold snap is bringing extreme temperature drops in large portions of the country, which means wide swaths of the U.S. are now facing frigid, sub-zero temperatures. Naturally, these conditions can ...

Fans often ask our technical experts ‘What is MotoGP™ Engine Displacement?’ and this complete guide to the topic will explore engine displacement in MotoGP™, its significance per category of the World ...