Most normal cars with less than eight cylinders nowadays use inline engines, but some also use boxer engines. What's the ...

The M104 has a very similar design and tuning potential to the iconic Toyota engine.

Though automakers like Stellantis, Mazda, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz are keeping a few straight-six engines alive in 2025, there are currently just two straight-six diesel powerplants left on the market.

When the motor car was in its infancy, engineers and designers experimented with all sorts of technologies and ideas to see which would work best. Through years of experimentation – and sometimes ...

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 ...

For decades, the gold standard brand for a straight-six-cylinder-powered sport sedan has been BMW. But the gold standard doesn't necessarily mean being the only general game in town worth considering.

If anything, many can comfortably argue that the Japanese brand is the global standard when it comes to developing engines that will stand the test of time. Since the company's inception, it has ...

Oh, Pontiac, your death in 2009 was a bitter pill, as memories of big block Trans Ams and GTOs flooded forth with the tears. Not that Pontiac's end was hard to see coming; the brand had been ...

America's automotive history is dominated by the V8. It's what we're most famous for. You can probably hear Jeremy Clarkson saying "V8 motor," with his less-than-kind American accent imitation. In ...

The enthusiast world loves inline-six engines - engines with six cylinders in a row - and BMW is an example of an automaker with a long history of inline-sixers. As we'll see later, the format has its ...

Mercedes-AMG’s decision to downsize the engines in several models, including the C 43 and C 63, hasn’t gone over well with buyers, but there’s finally some light at the end of the tunnel. Change is ...