Mercedes-AMG's heavily boosted 2.0-liter has been pushing the limits ever since its birth. Then, the company hybridized it ...

Great Wall Motors, a Chinese automaker, showed two eight-cylinder engines at CES this week. The 2.0-liter flat-eight makes 154 hp and 140 pound-feet of torque and powers the Souo S2000 motorcycle, but ...

GM has filed a patent application a variable displacement valvetrain system with rocker shaft porting and insert sleeves for engine cylinder deactivation. The patent application is tagged with patent ...

The five-cylinder engine is uncommon relative to the ubiquitous four-cylinder, six-cylinder, or eight-cylinder variants. As an odd-number engine, it certainly is in a class of just three such engines.

In most cases, the number of spark plugs in a gasoline engine is typically represented by the number of its cylinders. For instance, it's perfectly normal for a V8 engine to have eight spark plugs, a ...

The Audi five-cylinder isn’t long for this world, but it’s still around to celebrate its 50th birthday. Inline-five engines have been around since the ’30s, but it was only in the ’70s that they ...

Five is a very unusual number of cylinders for a motorcycle engine, and the most familiar examples graced track-only prototypes that brought world championships in two eras to Honda. If storied ...

Even if you're not an automotive enthusiast, you may have noticed in recent years that more and more vehicles have a four-cylinder engine under the hood, including larger cars and SUVs. Automakers ...

The 4-cylinder engine configuration is the most popular in the United States, with around 60% of vehicles utilizing it. Why is this so popular, though? And what are the main pros and cons for the ...

Well, it turns out the humble number seven just doesn’t play nice with the laws of physics – or with accountants. One problem noted by Auto Motor under Sport in a recent article is that the crank ...