Engine

The next Camaro's body will get bigger, while its engine offerings get smaller, a new report says.

Ford’s 1.0-liter EcoBoost three-cylinder engine has been named 2014 International Engine of the Year for an unprecedented third consecutive year. The tiny engine, which is already available in the Fiesta and coming soon to the Focus, managed to beat designs from the likes of Ferrari, McLaren...

Audi recently presented an RS 5 TDI concept car powered by a diesel engine equipped with an electrically-driven turbocharger. The engine features a twin-turbocharger setup where the smaller of the two turbos uses an electric motor to spool up its compressor at lower revs (up to 70,000 rpm in a few...

Meet the new engine that will power the next generation of Mercedes-AMG sports cars: the M178. As expected, the engine is a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8, and its first application will be in the new Mercedes-AMG GT. The engine has been fully developed by the engineers at AMG and features a...

Porsche fans who fondly recall the marque's last mid-engine sports car powered by a four-cylinder ‘boxer’ engine, the 914 (1969 - 1976), will be glad to know the German automaker will soon launch another one. Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller recently confirmed the automaker was working on a...

At the 2014 Beijing Auto Show last month, Lexus unveiled its new NX compact crossover and confirmed that the base model for the U.S. would be a NX 200t powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. The engine, Lexus’ first turbo, will eventually make its way into other models from...

We got our first look at the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat a week ago but now Dodge has dropped a few more details and photos for what’s shaping up to be the brand’s most potent muscle car in its entire history. No, we still don’t know how much power and torque will be...

If there's one thing more satisfying than a Rolls-Royce car, it's a Rolls-Royce engine. A Merlin engine, specifically, of the sort that once powered Spitfires, Hawker Hurricanes and all manner of other fighter aircraft and bombers during the second World War. ALSO SEE: 2015 Audi A7 And S7 Preview...

Volkswagen R&D boss Heinz-Jakob Neusser used this month’s Vienna Motor Symposium to reaffirm his company’s plans to introduce a 10-speed DSG dual-clutch transmission. Development of the advanced transmission was first announced at the Austrian event a year ago by VW Group CEO Martin...

Audi used this year’s Vienna Motor Symposium in Austria to debut its next-generation 3.0-liter TDI turbodiesel V-6, which should start appearing in the automaker’s vehicles as early as this year. The engine is more powerful than the unit it replaces, also a 3.0-liter mill, and...

At the 2014 Beijing Auto Show last week, Lexus unveiled its new NX compact crossover and confirmed that the base model for the U.S. would be a NX 200t powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. The engine, Lexus’s first turbo, will eventually make its way into other models from...

Koenigsegg’s new One:1 supercar is the most powerful production car ever built. Its twin-turbocharged 5.0-liter V-8 engine delivers a claimed 1,000 kilowatts, which equates to 1,341 horsepower or 1,360 horses if you’re into using metric figures. Peak torque, meanwhile, is an equally...

The second episode of the new season of Inside Koenigsegg is out, and in this one the guys at /DRIVE interview Koenigsegg CEO and founder Christian von Koenigsegg about the engine powering his company’s new One:1 supercar. In the episode, we learn that the engine is an evolution of the...

Next weekend marks the end of another era for Formula One as new regulations consign V-8 engines to the history books. To celebrate, and perhaps to mourn the passing of the current 2.4-liter V-8s, the Mercedes AMG F1 team has released a series of photos showing its last V-8 being built. Designated...

There's no denying that Ferrari produces some amazing engines. The Italian automaker creates some of the world's most stunning cars thanks to their sultry lines but also to the powerplants that motivate them. The latest engine from the mighty minds of Maranello is a 6.3-liter V-12 unit built for...

General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] is overhauling the structure of its powertrain division, including investing up to $200 million in the construction of a new testing facility and consolidating several other facilities with its Global Powertrain Engineering Headquarters in Pontiac, Michigan. The...

Turbochargers, on their own, are fairly simple devices. Escaping exhaust gasses spin a turbine, allowing the compressor side of the turbo to increase the amount of air entering the engine via the intake manifold. More air allows for more fuel, which in turn produces greater power over...

The future looks bright for V-12 engines, at least, they do at Mercedes-Benz. This is because the luxury automaker has confirmed its future lineup will offer the full flavor of a V-12, though the development and production of the engines will be outsourced to AMG. That’s right, Mercedes will...

If you thought a NANOSLIDE was a driving situation fixed by a dab of nanocorrection on the steering, think again. It's actually the name of a new, award-winning technology developed by Mercedes-Benz for use in engine design. NANOSLIDE technology is a way of giving the cylinder walls in an engine a...

We already know Bentley’s working on a new SUV model due sometime in 2014 or 2015, and we also know that it will be instantly recognizable as a Bentley despite almost certainly riding on Porsche Cayenne running gear. However, now we also know that it will feature a 12-cylinder gasoline...