The largest 4-cylinder engine in a production car belonged to the 1961 Pontiac Tempest ... Thus, the Trophy 4 was created; with a new cylinder block and crankshaft, but while still retaining ...

“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 ...

While the electric car is gaining ground and market ... Using the innovative technology to create the compact VM VR6 engine, which allowed a 6-cylinder block to fit into a space reserved for ...

In the recent bid to boost fuel efficiency, car manufacturers are producing vehicles with three- and four-cylinder engines that only 10 years ago were powered by either a six- or eight-cylinder ...

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 ...

Much of the credit for those continuous wins can be ascribed to the fortitude of the powerful C5-R 7.0L racing engine. The C5-R was based on GM's Gen III small-block ... C5-R race car's chassis.

"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 ...