Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending years as a regular ol' car fanatic, he started working his way through the echelons of the automotive industry, starting out as social-media ...

A German engineer, Felix Wankel, is credited with developing the world's first rotary engine in the 1950s. Wankel rotary engines use a triangular rotor spinning in a semi-oval case on an eccentric ...

We're transforming a 1960 Ford Falcon into a long-distance cruiser. We've dubbed this car the Vagabond Falcon, and it currently has a small 2.4 liter straight-six. That's not enough power. The idea is ...

How Does an Engine Work? Before digging into this significant expense, it’s important to outline how an engine works. The engine is the heart of the car, truck, or SUV. The vehicle’s full function is ...

Humans use hot cocoa, coffee, tea, whiskey, and chicken noodle soup to warm up their insides and defrost from the cold abyss known as winter. Cars use engine block heaters. For the most part, modern ...

Really, Nicholas Otto should have known. When the 18th Century inventor/engineer/designer/builder/deep-thinker was finally able to take French engineer Alphonse Beau ...

Volkswagen has shown a new coasting function for internal combustion engines, which shuts off the engine completely, at the Vienna Motor Symposium. “Partially and fully electric drive systems form a ...