Last week, the car internet was lit ablaze by a patent from Porsche that depicted a design for a W-shaped, turbocharged, 18-cylinder engine. The patent was cool for a lot of reasons: It features a ...

Muscle cars are usually defined by big, simple V8 engines built for straight-line speed. However, a handful of manufacturers and engineers broke tradition, experimenting with unusual engine layouts, ...

Cars used to be really simple. They would have an engine up-front, perfectly visible and surrounded by heaps of open space under the hood, a few seats in the middle, and a trunk at the back. As the ...