Six-cylinders are having a comeback moment. From Porsche’s flat-sixes to BMW’s turbocharged inline units to Maserati and AMG ditching V8s altogether, the layout is everywhere again. It wasn’t always ...

The Ford 460 big-block survived nearly three decades and now offers strong blocks, huge displacement, and affordable 500 hp ...

Six-cylinder engines often live in the shadow of their flashier and noisier V8 and V12 cousins—but don’t be fooled, these workhorse powerplants have powered some of the greatest cars in automotive ...

While electric and hybrid power trains are leading in the performance race, when it comes to pure internal combustion engines, you'd think the only way to achieve horsepower heaven would be to get a ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

It's an argument practically as old as the combustion engine itself: What's the best configuration of cylinders? V6 or V8, V8 or V12, straight engines versus V engines, and so on. And, in this case, ...

Mercedes-AMG is getting rid of the 4-cylinder C63, and this is why you shouldn't buy a used model.

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 ...

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.