Is there actually a "perfect" engine configuration? While budget and space change the answer for everyday cars, the absolute ...

In some sense, cars are the forces that drive our world. They help us shorten distances, travel faster than we’ve ever thought possible, and make our lives degrees of magnitude easier. All of that was ...

BMW is a manufacturer famous for a wide variety of reasons: its contemporary luxury designs, racing prowess, and storied history, to name a few. One of its most distinctive elements across all of ...

Nathaniel is an experienced automotive writer with more than 10 years of automotive writing under his belt. From model reviews to industry politics to new innovations and development, he covers a wide ...

We've seen plenty of 16-cylinder automobile engines over the years, but usually in V- or W- configurations. But now a man in ...

Photo: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. In use for over a century, this fantastic engine configuration has given birth to some of the mightiest powerplants ever created. The first straight-six was produced in ...

It's fun to study crazy new engine configurations, and every year or so some inventor turns up at the Society of Automotive Engineers' annual hoe-down in Detroit with another idea for "a better ...

A diesel engine is simultaneously incredibly simple and incredibly violent, using compression as a means of ignition. This is because of the properties of diesel fuel: Namely, diesel is less volatile ...