We all love internal combustion. It gets us where we’re going and does it efficiently, too. At least it does nowadays. But internal combustion wasn’t always this way. Before there was direct injection ...

Big-block engines have always traded on mythology as much as on dyno sheets, yet some of the most imposing cast-iron V8s deliver surprisingly modest output once you look past the badge. When I line up ...

In the '60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac's overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a ...

Actively reporting, writing, and editing on automotive news and since 2021, Dave has brought his acerbic wit and love of European car culture to brands such as HotCars, CarBuzz,and TopSpeed.

Aston Martin's DBS successor will feature a new V-12 engine because it's what its customers want. So said Alex Long, the automaker's head of product and marketing strategy, in a recent interview with ...

NASCAR Cup engines live in a strange space: they are tightly regulated, largely hand built, and expected to survive hours at ...

Hot rod builds a mouse trap and tries to catch a rat. Originally published in the August 1998 issue of Hot Rod magazine. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring ...

Tanner Marlar is an award-winning journalist with nearly a decade of experience in motorsports, collegiate athletics, automotive developments and technology. With the SUV market still being set ablaze ...

While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...

I don't know if you know this, but space is really freaking big. So to get there, we need to turn to some pretty enormous machines. The rockets that shoot satellites, astronauts and other craft into ...

There is this phrase Americans love that says there's no replacement for displacement. For one reason or another, the country came to the conclusion that the bigger the engines used in their cars are, ...