The largest 4-cylinder engine in a production car belonged to the 1961 Pontiac Tempest ... Thus, the Trophy 4 was created; ...

“That four-cylinder is going to be working a lot harder to move that same car as a bigger engine would, and I don’t know if it would last as long.” In general, the industrywide shift from ...

Fiat‘s recent introduction of the two-cylinder TwinAir engine in the 500 has not swayed Volkswagen to reconsider placing a two-piston mill in its own city car, the Up!. If anything, Fiat’s ...

For a while in the 2010s, in particular, it seemed like car engines got comparatively tiny, even in bigger cars. Engines such as the three-cylinder Ford EcoBoost have been around for years and are ...

For one, they are generally lighter than other engines. This can bring down the overall weight of a vehicle, leading to better handling and speed. Although a lightweight 3-cylinder car probably ...

Bored out for the famous 22B and renamed the EJ22. A come together engine. The S14 from the first gen E30 M3 used the older cylinder block from the M10 (in production since 1962, a block that was ...

The inline five-cylinder engine can be any ... was the first of its kind in a passenger car and helped cement the reputation of Mercedes diesel engines as practically unbreakable.

The biggest 3-cylinder ... engine in the Alfa 33 was a flat-four and a regular inline-four diesel wouldn't fit the engine bay. So, VM Motori squeezed in a turbo-3, tilted. It had a cast iron block ...

"A GM engineer said we'd never have an engine without a camshaft a few years ago. We were driving in a car without a camshaft ... actuators on top of each cylinder. This is something that has ...

addictions counselor owns a Chrysler 300 large car with a six-cylinder engine, which gets him 30 mpg. He’s happy with his performance and fuel economy and is dreading the possibility that V6 ...