QUESTION: What was the last car to have a two-stroke engine? As strict Western emissions standards were developed, two-stroke models were phased out. However, this was not the case in the Eastern Bloc ...

The piston ends its downstroke and begins moving upward, compressing the air/fuel mix until combustion happens and the whole cycle begins anew. This means that the high torque efficiency of the ...

The Detroit Diesel Corporation originally launched in 1938 as a division of General Motors, and its main purpose was to build a two-stroke engine that would combine power and versatility in a small ...

The German automaker sees your four-stroke engine and raises you... two more strokes. Ready for some math? Porsche just ...

When I was just married and I bought a golden yellow Chevrolet station wagon, I realized that I was headed for a pattern of life that was best expressed by Thoreau, who said, “Most men live life of ...

After observing that ‘the automobile will maintain its dominant role in personal transportation through the foreseeable ...

Honda’s hybrid systems score well with our judges, with the propulsion system in the Civic Hybrid earning our 2025 kudos.

For more than a decade the name Wankel has popped up whenever car enthusiasts start talking about advanced-design automotive powerplants. The theory of the Wankel engine goes back to 1954 when Dr.

I love weird engines—give me a rotary, a turbine, or, hell, even a flat-eight and I’ll be happy. That’s why I was so excited when I heard that INNengine of Granada, Spain had produced a opposed-piston ...