After 245K miles, one loyal F-150 owner is sounding the alarm on Ford’s new reliability. Why are $50K trucks failing in just 2 years? This veteran driver reveals the brutal truth about what’s ...

GM has filed a patent application a variable displacement valvetrain system with rocker shaft porting and insert sleeves for engine cylinder deactivation. The patent application is tagged with patent ...

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.

In most cases, the number of spark plugs in a gasoline engine is typically represented by the number of its cylinders. For instance, it's perfectly normal for a V8 engine to have eight spark plugs, a ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

The inline 3 cylinder engine is similar to an inline 6, but cut in half. I3's make a good choice for small, compact, and cost-effective engines producing good fuel economy. The primary and secondary ...

Five is a very unusual number of cylinders for a motorcycle engine, and the most familiar examples graced track-only prototypes that brought world championships in two eras to Honda. If storied ...

Well, it turns out the humble number seven just doesn’t play nice with the laws of physics – or with accountants. One problem noted by Auto Motor under Sport in a recent article is that the crank ...

The aerial observation flight was conducted by a 14 CFR Part 135 certificated on-demand air carrier under contract to the U.S. Forest Service. As the flight neared its destination airport, the pilot ...