American truck engines were once bastions of dependability. However today, this Japanese manufacturer might make a more ...

While you may be able to name a dozen prominent American manufacturers, few produce a product as legendary and iconic as Harley-Davidson, Inc. With more than a century of motorcycle building history, ...

The Ford Taurus SHO was a crazy-fast sport sedan in its day, but how much do you really know about the Yamahammer V6 under the hood? We interrupt your regularly scheduled motorcycle programming to ...

A salvage-auction Subaru STI hides a blown “built” engine. Teardown uncovers shattered pistons, toasted bearings, and dealer trickery disguised as performance. Pete’s auction-bought 2017 Subaru WRX ...

Toyota has long been an industry standard bearer in the automotive performance world. Toyota represents one of the best-selling brands in the United States, with a roughly 15% market share overall and ...

Most automotive enthusiasts are familiar with Volkswagen's long-lived VR6 engine. It is a 6-cylinder engine with fifteen degree offset cylinder bores so that it is more compact than a traditional ...

Whether you're upgrading a relatively modern Dodge vehicle like the third-generation Challenger or working on a classic from the 1970s, crate engines are a great way to upgrade or add more power to ...

COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) - A piece of Cummins history has returned to Columbus after being left for nearly eight decades in the South Dakota oil fields. Half buried in the open prairies near Bison, South ...

When Pete Aardema couldn't find a short-stroke, big-bore 4-cylinder to meet his class at Bonneville, he built his own. Astute HOT ROD readers will remember the full feature on his home-brewed sheet ...

Physicists have just built the smallest working engine ever created. It's a heat-powered motor barely larger than the single atom it runs on. Designed and build by a team of experimental physicists ...

Whether we’re talking about children playing at school or Origami masters, we’ve all built something out of paper at a certain point in our lives. Nevertheless, there’s one man on Youtube who has ...