Forget four cylinders or three cylinders — Fiat proves that its award-winning two-pot engine can be powerful enough for ...

The Subaru STI S209 is the first time America gets an exclusive S Line Subaru STI. With a bigger turbo, revised intake and exhaust, new tune, and water injection system, the car now puts down 341 ...

The Honda RC51 was Honda’s first attempt at building a superbike with a V-twin motor, and they sure hit it out of the park. Ducati dominated WSBK in the 1990s with powerful V-twin engines against four ...

The five-cylinder engine is uncommon relative to the ubiquitous four-cylinder, six-cylinder, or eight-cylinder variants. As an odd-number engine, it certainly is in a class of just three such engines.

Turbocharger use is more prolific than ever, and understanding how one works explains why it’s such a popular choice. To understand the benefit of a turbo, we need a refresher on the basics of the ...

Folks have been experimenting with ethanol in modern combustion engines even when they weren't so modern. Nicolaus Otto, the inventor of the traditional four-cycle engine, used it to power one of his ...

Language is an imperfect medium, but it's what we've got, so let's go with it. Determining the swept volume of inventor Felix Wankel's rotary engine can generate more arguments than claiming what a GT ...

Knowing what company manufactures specific parts of your car can be tough, especially if you don't have easy access to the information. When it comes to semi-trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles, ...

The hottest engine ever created is, by some definitions, not an engine and not particularly hot. But it reveals the weird physics of extreme temperatures at the microscale. The engine is made of a ...