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 ...

The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons rising and falling, a crankshaft spinning, a steam-age architecture ...

Chrysler built 50 cars powered by gas turbine engines in the early 1960s, loaned them to ordinary American drivers, and then destroyed nearly the entire fleet. The program represented the most ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

Anyone with even the slightest shred of mechanical sympathy has to wince at videos like this one. Redditor Conyers117 recently posted a video of a diesel engine from an International DuraStar work ...

The HEMI engine is named after the engine's hemispherical shaped piston heads. While Chrysler brands popularized and trademarked the name, HEMI-style engines were developed in the early 1900s. The ...

A 20-year-old mastermind from Romania has built the world's first full-size Lego car, with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. It has space for two passengers and can hit a top speed of around 30 ...

Hyundai actually has a pretty good reputation for making engines, but that doesn't mean they're incapable of making some stinkers, as these engines prove.

The engine is the lifeblood of a car. It converts fuel, usually gasoline, into physical motion that turns the wheels and makes the vehicles go. Over the years, as technology advanced, so too did ...