For more than a century, one basic layout has quietly powered everything from family sedans to fighter trainers and lawn ...

Formula 1 agrees a two-step plan to change engine design in response to criticism of this year's new rules.

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 ...

Featuring in the 996- and 997-gen GT2, GT3, and Turbo models, the Mezger flat-six is widely regarded as the greatest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ferrari is exploring a groundbreaking approach to the internal combustion engine, as revealed by a recent European patent filing.

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 ...

All too often when traveling and teaching engine company operations around the country, I’m amazed at the varying layouts of engines. Whether I’m impressed or shocked, I often will ask, “Why did you ...

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 ...

Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

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 ...

DAYTON, Ohio—The Air Force is working on one engine design to power the service’s highly secret new fighter jet—no matter which company builds the plane. The future engine, called Next Generation ...

John Neff is a veteran automotive journalist with over two decades of experience leading major outlets such as Autoblog and Motor1. Beginning his career as Editor-in-Chief of Speed, Style & Sound, he ...