Two-cylinder power! [Tom’s] ultimate goal is to put his new tiny air engine on a small model aircraft. To enable consistent performance, his engine needs a regulator, but off-the-shelf models ...

Three-cylinder ... The engine remained the same, and so did the front-wheel-drive layout. This sure makes the Copen less interesting than its rivals, but it has an ace up its sleeve — a Gazoo ...

A solenoid engine is a curiosity of the electrical world. By all measures, using electricity to rotate something can be done almost any other way with greater efficiency and less hassle.

The Knight sleeve valve engine used the four-stroke Otto-cycle system present in most modern vehicle engines. Starting with the piston at the top of the cylinder, the crankshaft's rotation pulls ...

Please verify your email address. Inline four-cylinder engines are inherently unbalanced, but skillful design and properly balanced and counterweighted crankshafts combine with soft engine ...

Just the very ubiquity of the four-cylinder engine gives it a bad press. It’s humdrum. Workmanlike. Unglamorous. It tends to make simply a duh noise, a dreary one-dimensional timbre, and while ...

Unusually, three different layouts of the six-cylinder engine remain in favour: the straight-six, the V6 and the flat-six. When it’s bad though... it can be a gritty, painful-on-the-ear misery.

At the MotorTrend How-To section, you’ll learn how to perform the car improvements you want to do, thanks to DIY knowledge on how-to make an engine more powerful, improve a suspension ...

There was a time, some 35-odd years ago, when the only engines found under the hood of a Volvo were four-cylinder units. Some were naturally aspirated, and some were boosted via a turbo-charger.

Though it’s a price jump from the four-cylinder models, we'd pony up for the GTS 4.0 model to unlock the 394-hp flat-six engine in order to get the most authentic Porsche sports car experience ...

Fire engines across West Yorkshire have been fitted with bespoke welfare kits for animals rescued from house fires. The packs include oxygen masks, muzzles, slip leads and calming wipes to ease ...