You might overlook the end gaps of piston rings in your car. They shouldn't be taken so lightly, though, as they actually ...

The story of how Honda developed an oval-piston race engine that ultimately failed but still made history along the way.

Ferrari has signaled a willingness to challenge one of the most fundamental assumptions in engine design by filing a European ...

Ferrari is exploring a groundbreaking approach to the internal combustion engine, as revealed by a recent European patent filing. Departing from the industry-standard round pistons, this new design ...

Ford once sketched a road where an engine's pistons never saw oil and engines ran hotter on purpose. In a late‑1980s patent application filed and granted in Europe, the company described an "uncooled ...

HOT ROD’s archives are chock-full of brilliant tech reports that truly are timeless. This one, drafted by Jim McFarland for our February 1972 issue, provides an extensive look at how important airflow ...

The original concept of combustion engines as we understand them dates as far back as the late 1800s. And while they are more or less a solved science today, they definitely didn't start that way.

Engine cylinders can misfire due to problems with the ignition system, the fuel system, air and compression, or sensors and ...

As demands for sustainability ramp up, electric vehicle systems have become one of the major focuses of the engineering scene, with certain governments even hoping to gradually phase out traditional ...

Just because LEGO Technic is technically a toy doesn’t mean that you cannot do solid engineering with it, like building ...