If you were to pop open the hood of any random automobile on the planet, chances are extremely strong that you are going to see an inline engine — sometimes referred to as a straight engine — or a V ...

Inline and V engines dominate modern combustion vehicle design. Each layout offers unique advantages in packaging, smoothness, cost, and performance. Here is how the two configurations differ and why ...

As for Chrysler, they went to great lengths to avoid the V8 fad at first, ensuring their much-beloved straight-eight engines lasted past the end of the war, even into the very early 1950s. This is the ...

Engines with cylinders in different configurations have different power and torque characteristics, and these are two of the most common.

Before Hudson was folded into American Motors, it had developed its own eight-cylinder engine. Yet for years, it stuck with ...

Discussing which engine is better between a straight-six and a V8 is something that feels like a plotline from The Fast and the Furious, if the franchise actually cared about cars. It’s “import versus ...