In a period when the Corvette still wore its front-engine bruiser image proudly, this secret project looked like it had wandered in from Turin after taking a wrong turn near Bowling Green. It was ...

When we think of brands likeToyota, Ford, or Honda, we think of well-oiled, conventional machines that churn out cars that many people love. At the same time, these brands don't normally push the ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...

A fresh US patent filing takes on the exact emissions weakness that has kept Mazda's rotary revival stuck on concept-car ...

Most vehicles use a piston engine similar to the one-cylinder, four-stroke motor in the first car ever made, Karl Benz's Patent Motorwagen. Lately, a more fuel-efficient and emissions-friendly engine ...

We live in an age of downsizing in the automotive world. Super and hypercar manufacturers like McLaren and Ferrari are ditching big-capacity, high-cylinder count engines in favor of boosted V6 and V8 ...