The story of how Honda developed an oval-piston race engine that ultimately failed but still made history along the way.

Engines have remained fairly true to form over the years without a lot of unusual changes, but a new Ferrari design could change everything.

The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long; we all know that. However, some of the newest engine designs are proving to be more like firecrackers than candles, judging from the number of ...

Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons that could shrink engines, boost efficiency, and reinvent how high-performance gas motors are designed for the next generation. Oval pistons could also lower ...

Ferrari is exploring a groundbreaking approach to the internal combustion engine, as revealed by a recent European patent filing. Departing from the industry-standard round pistons, this new design ...

When we here in the modern age think of an “engine,” we are usually thinking of a four-stroke, four-cylinder, gasoline-fed, internal-combustion engine with the valves on the top. But why must that be ...

Piston-driven aircraft are significantly more affordable to purchase than turboprops, with models generally ranging from $100,000 to $1 million. Training and certification for piston planes are less ...

Give it wheels and a steering mechanism, and people will try to power it with anything they can. Visionary (and not-so-visionary) tinkerers and engineers have experimented with everything from steam ...

The cylinder bore is only half of the equation that determines an engine's displacement, or size. The other half of this ...

Q:I have a 327 in my '31 Ford that features nearly the same cam and components as the one you referenced recently in Pit Stop (Nov. '12). Since a 1.6:1-ratio rocker arm will push the valve a little ...