The unique demands of car racing have spurred various developments in automobile manufacturing. Whether in Formula 1, Le Mans, or on the street, people love a car with plenty of speed and performance.

NASCAR Cup engines live in a strange space: they are tightly regulated, largely hand built, and expected to survive hours at full throttle while still making headline power. The rulebook caps ...

"There are no bad ideas in a brainstorm," they say. Only slightly lesser well known is, "if there's a four stroke piston engine that's not a radial, Formula 1's tried it." There have been inline fours ...

The five-cylinder engine is uncommon relative to the ubiquitous four-cylinder, six-cylinder, or eight-cylinder variants. As an odd-number engine, it certainly is in a class of just three such engines.

How boxer engines work, why they’re not just “flat” engines, and a 120-year evolution traced from the 1899 Benz to the latest Porsche and Subaru boxers. Boxer engines feature flat, opposing pistons ...

Considering the exterior, we’ve got to appreciate the effort Nelson Racing Engines put into cleaning and smoothing the engine block and cylinder heads. The whole engine looks like a show piece; all ...

Nathaniel is an experienced automotive writer with more than 10 years of automotive writing under his belt. From model reviews to industry politics to new innovations and development, he covers a wide ...

The rise and fall of Ford's Voodoo V8 engine, a powerful and exotic-sounding powerplant that faced problems and was killed ...