Five-cylinder engines occupy a strange sweet spot in automotive history, sitting between the balance of a straight-six and the compact packaging of a four-cylinder. They have powered everything from ...

Long before the mid-engine layout became the standard for exotic high-performance rides, these road-legal sports cars went all in on placing the motor behind the driver, making history in the process.

NASCAR Cup engines live in a strange space: they are tightly regulated, largely hand built, and expected to survive hours at full throttle while still making headline power. The rulebook caps ...

Engineered to keep things low, balanced, and smooth, the Subaru boxer engine might be one of the best-kept secrets in ...

The SR20DET was a 2.0L all-aluminum four-cylinder with DOHC, electronic fuel injection, and turbocharging. But what made it ...

Rear-engined car models have been rare across automotive history, but many of them are historic and iconic. It's important to understand the difference between mid- and rear-engine placement and how ...

The inline-6 engine layout has its fans in the gas world, but it's the de facto standard design among diesel aficionados. Hardly surprising, as these engines are less complex than any V layout and ...

Honda has come up with a electronic forced-induction V3 motor that we’re probably going to see in a future sportbike. Honda revives the rare V3 engine layout with a modern, four-stroke, ...

The eighth-generation Chevrolet Corvette is still fresh on the market, and for the first time just as Zora Arkus-Duntov envisioned it, with a mid-engine layout. But back when the Belgian-born American ...