NOTE: With this issue of HOT ROD, your Shop Series begins a slightly different and more comprehensive approach to the discussion of engine and vehicle basics. In the coming months, you'll find a frank ...

Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

Despite a concerted drive towards electric propulsion, General Motors is spending a small fortune developing a new V8 engine.

Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition. What is the future of gasoline engines, or internal combustion engines? HCCI is an ...

The realm of pistons and internal combustion has been on an evolutionary arms race since the very first power stroke of the Big Bang that started the reciprocating piston revolution. Stronger, faster, ...

With the rise of stricter emission laws, engine manufacturers have no choice but to look into alternate energy sources to run their vehicles. Cummins is reinventing the combustion engine but this time ...

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...