Unlike an 8-cylinder engine, 6-cylinders can be configured in a number of different ways. Eight-cylinders used to be inline, ...

The Napier is a complicated extrapolation of a basic opposed-piston engine. Your average “engine” has cylinders and pistons ...

Ever wondered why a Ford Mustang V8 rumbles and a Nissan GTR V6 whines? Well, you'd better concentrate, because it's more ...

In other words, imagine a four-cylinder engine with two pairs of different cylinder sizes, such as cylinders one and four displacing 0.4 liters and cylinders two and three displacing 0.35 liters.

Just the very ubiquity of the four-cylinder engine gives it a bad press ... made the car faster on-road than rivals (on track is a different matter), because falling out of the VTEC zone through ...

The GM vs. Ford rivalry is an old and familiar one, but four-cylinder engines aren’t normally associated with these American car industry titans. Although they may both be more world-renowned ...