Turbocharging performance cars to improve efficiency and overall power figures has become big business in the last several years, mainly due to a turbo being the easiest way to solve these two ...

Subaru is obsessed with the boxer engine, and the EJ25 might be their greatest yet. Here's all you need to know.

The Volkswagen Tiguan still does not have a hybrid variant in its North American catalogue, a technology that the ...

You'd expect an engine named Hurricane to be fairly powerful. And Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has dropped hints that it would launch a new 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine since as far back as 2013.

While Toyota hasn't explicitly stated why it's moving away from the V6, it's likely for the same reasons as other brands: ...

Inline four-cylinder engines are inherently unbalanced, but skillful design and properly balanced and counterweighted ...

This week Mercedes-AMG unveiled a new entry-level version of its seventh-generation SL roadster called the SL43, and it's the first SL since the original 190SL of the 1950s and '60s to use a ...

Ford Motor Company's 4-cylinder engines have always been popular with the hot rodding set. Even in the days of the flathead, a beefed-up flattie four Ford was a force to be reckoned with. And as the ...

From intern to editor, Damian Adams' story reads like a well-written novel where he steadily worked to become the youngest-ever editor of South Africa's leading motoring publication, CAR Magazine. He ...

Photo: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Often ridiculed by many gearheads, four-cylinder engines can be as potent as those with twice as many cylinders. Four-cylinders were among the first types of internal ...

Last month, the peeps at Mercedes-AMG elevated the C 63 from a twin-turbo V8 to a plug-in hybrid four-cylinder turbo. Even though it only manages up to 8 miles (13 kilometers) of all-electric range at ...

Today's 4-cylinder cars offer a better combination of performance and efficiency than ever before. Although the engines themselves continue to get smaller in displacement, they're able to make more ...