Automotive giant General Motors has filed patents for a two-stroke engine of the type whose excess emissions took it off the road decades ago as a technology seen as having no future.The patent is for ...

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In April, GM recalled 721,000 6.2-liter V8 engines. Toyota followed with more than 102,000 V6 engines in 2024. Honda pulled back nearly 250,000 V6s. Stellantis is sorting out issues with 112,589 ...

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

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Looking for a long-lasting hybrid car? These models are known to surpass 200,000 miles without breaking a sweat.

Porsche switched to water cooling to meet stricter emissions and noise rules, handle more power and heat, improve efficiency, ...

Crate engine. The term, derived from the wooden and composite containers an engine is shipped in from the manufacturer, is used to identify a complete, ready-to-go, cost-effective powerplant that will ...

Between oil starvation and head gasket issues, a lot of Subaru powertrains aren't exactly a by-word for reliability, and they require a bit more care than most.

A proposal to revise an E.U. law requiring carmakers to stop producing combustion engines by 2035 would offer some relief to ...

Using liquid cooling for a motorcycle engine makes its temperature more predictable, but air cooling lets an engine be ...