NOTE: With this issue of HOT ROD, your Shop Series begins a slightly different and more comprehensive approach to the discussion of engine and vehicle basics. In the coming months, you'll find a frank ...

Internal combustion might as well be wizardry to me. I have a basic idea of how engines work and I’ve been wrenching on them since I was a teenager, so I get the gist of it, but my feeble brain still ...

Basic engine education is much like basic sex education: There are hundreds of well-written, informative books on the subject but only a handful of the interested people are willing to expend the time ...

Inline and V engines dominate modern combustion vehicle design. Each layout offers unique advantages in packaging, smoothness, cost, and performance. Here is how the two configurations differ and why ...

What makes a diesel engine different to a regular gas engine, and is one better than the other?

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

The original concept of combustion engines as we understand them dates as far back as the late 1800s. And while they are more or less a solved science today, they definitely didn't start that way.

Toyota, Mazda and Subaru are not giving up on internal combustion yet. The Japanese auto giants are forging ahead with the development of new internal combustion engines, which the automakers say are ...

) is a type of hybrid car that combines a traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) with an electric motor and a large rechargeable battery. The unique feature of a PHEV is its ability to be ...