Ferrari patents a radical Y-shaped V12 engine designed as a hybrid generator, rethinking combustion architecture amid ...

Engines with odd numbers of cylinders aren’t very common. The only configurations that normally see used in automobiles are inline-three cylinder engines and inline-fives. Needless to say, an ...

Automakers have been shying away from the old adage of "there's no replacement for displacement" over the past decade. Gone are the days of sticking a large V8 engine into a car and calling it a day.

It’s very common to find vehicles using engines with four and six cylinders, with some able to use as few as three or as many as twelve cylinders in certain configurations. But in the majority of ...

Pop open the hood on a Ferrari 250 GTO (if you happen to own one or are part of a team that restores these $70-million cars when they go up in flames), and you'll see a 300-horsepower V12 with six ...

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 ...

Marmorini, who had previously helped optimize Aprilia's MotoGP power unit, advised Yamaha to consider shifting from its inline-four-cylinder engine to a V4 configuration. Leveraging the flexibility of ...