Some engines are remembered for their power, others for their sound. A smaller group earns a different kind of fame: the ...

Some engine designs fade into the background, quietly doing their job until regulations or fashion move on. Others keep ...

Towards the second half of the 20th century, the quest to create an engine with more power, long-term reliability, and higher ...

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 ...

Ferrari patented a 2-stroke opposed-piston hydrogen combustion engine — a design used in diesel trucks and submarines, not ...

There are certain engine configurations that are known even to those whose interest in engines is minimal. For instance, most people will know what makes a V-engine a V-engine, and even the ...

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1978, General Motors revealed its 'revolutionary' 350 V8 diesel engine... which turned out to be one of the most terrible ...

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