Mazda was forced to drop one of its preferred engine technologies long ago, but technical advancements mean it has been able ...

Some engine designs fade into the background, quietly doing their job until regulations or fashion move on. Others keep resurfacing in engineering meetings, race debriefs, and enthusiast forums years ...

Ferrari has put a number of engines in its cars over the years. However, it's the automaker's flagship V12 engine design that springs to mind when someone asks what makes them sound so good. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The two proposed adaptive engines that might one day power the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter have passed an important ...

Two-stroke engines have steadily fallen out of favor over the last 50 years or so. While they sport great power-to-weight ratios and are often much simpler mechanically than their four-stroke ...

With a slogan like “The Future is Ecclectic,” we’d expect some interesting things from INNengine, a startup based in Spain. The company is showcasing a “one-stroke” engine that works as an opposed ...

Intake, compression, power, then exhaust. Every 4-stroke engine ever made – about 80% of all engines currently in existence – function on this principle – even rotary engines. But now, Porsche has ...

Combustion engines with an odd number of cylinders are not unheard of but are not particularly common, either. Honda‘s just trotted out an interesting one: A V3, so, two pistons on one side and one on ...

Contemplating the advantages of the pushrod-actuated overhead valve engine design in what appears to be the twilight of internal combustion might sound as anachronistic as a quick look at the value of ...

With more and more new electric cars on the horizon, the future of internal combustion engines seems darker every day. But this new type of hyper-efficient engine design might keep it around for a bit ...

V4 engines are few and far between(except in motorcycles). It's the reverse situation from 8-cylinder engines, where there are scores of V8s and a count-them-on-one ...