Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

Automakers like Toyota, Mercedes, and Mazda are ditching V6 engines in favor of more efficient and cost-effective powertrains ...

Some agree that batteries are the clear winner in the race against hydrogen technologies, while others think the opposite. There's no such debate among internal combustion engine proponents. Almost ...

For more than 100 years, the internal combustion engine (ICE) has been the mechanism of choice for vehicles of all shapes and sizes. Across all configurations, the principle is the same: a mix of fuel ...

With a Bachelor of Industrial Design, Cortez studies what makes products (including cars) good, timeless, and influential. As a scholar with a lifelong passion for automotives, his training in ...

Inline and V engines dominate modern combustion vehicle design. Each layout offers unique advantages in packaging, smoothness, cost, and performance. Here is how the two configurations differ and why ...

Mercedes-Benz has been granted a patent for an internal combustion engine that includes a crankshaft, camshaft, cylinder, piston, gas exchange valve, valve clearance compensation device, and a control ...

NOTE: With this issue of HOT ROD, your Shop Series begins a slightly different and more comprehensive approach to the discussion of engine and vehicle basics. In the coming months, you'll find a frank ...

Ford CEO Jim Farley says a teardown of a Tesla electric vehicle revealed a major design gap inside Ford’s early EV ...

ICE advances made by Toyota, Subaru, and Mazda. How certain regulations and automaker roadmaps have changed due to slowed EV sales. Just when it seems like electrification has pushed the internal ...

Astron aerospace has shown a partial prototype of a new rotary combustion engine it claims runs at an extraordinary 60% thermal efficiency, burning totally clean with zero NOx emissions and nothing ...