Among diesel technicians, a few engines have earned a reputation for turning routine jobs into all-day battles, with cramped packaging, fragile components and baffling design choices that punish ...

With their fuel-efficiency advantage over gasoline engines of similar capacity, it is odd that diesel engines haven't been offered often in modern light-duty vehicles. Therefore, when Chrysler ...

Plenty of engines look great on paper but turn into money pits once the warranty runs out. Mechanics who see the same failures over and over are blunt about which ones they would avoid at all costs.

Modern internal combustion engines — including those that run on diesel fuel — require a lot of special parts and systems to prevent dumping excess emissions into the atmosphere. Not only are those ...

Engines that once promised a decade or more of smooth, rumbling reliability are now packing up and quitting after barely five years. Modern cars gleam with technological wizardry, from turbocharged ...