Volvo no longer makes boring cars for boring people.

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

Subaru and flat, or "boxer" engines are practically synonymous with one another. Beyond the Japanese automaker and Porsche, no other major manufacturer regularly utilizes flat engine configurations ...

Since 1963, an air-cooled (later water-cooled) six-cylinder boxer engine has been used in a car so iconic that both its engine placement and configuration have largely remained unchanged. It's the ...

Like all engines, five-cylinder engines have their cons, but they have also had their moments in the sun, especially in Volkswagen Group's products. The company's I5 motors were a relatively common ...

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 ...

Photo: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. In use for over a century, this fantastic engine configuration has given birth to some of the mightiest powerplants ever created. The first straight-six was produced in ...

Though it's rare and might be considered an oddity by some enthusiasts, the inline-five has proved its worth on numerous occasions, particularly under the hood of these iconic performance cars.

An exhaust note helps give a cars its personality, and what that personality is has a lot to do to the type of engine it has. Toyota has released a helpful explainer on why that is. It starts with the ...