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 ...

Folks, we've got another chapter in the fallout of Mercedes-AMG introducing a plug-in-hybrid inline-4 motor to the C63 and GLC63. The German automaker now says it is preparing to phase out the engine.

On the premise that a cylinder block is the foundation of any modern engine and a completed powerplant can be no stronger than the foundation, we checked with engine builder Ed Pink on his procedures ...

It all started with the LS1 in the then-stupendous '97 Corvette. The engine was like nothing we'd seen before with all the go-fast theories applied from the factory. The problem, if you could call it ...