Taking an engine compression test is sort of like checking your car's blood pressure. It's a quick and painless procedure ...

Infiniti introduced the world's first variable compression-ratio engine, a technology it claims to have been working on for two decades, at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show. A variable compression-ratio ...

Compression: An automotive term used by everybody, forever. Let's get into some detail and maybe develop a better understanding. Pressure, and more pressure: It's a must-have to produce power within ...

Almost all gasoline engines, whether they're efficient-yet-less-refined four-cylinders, high-horsepower V6s, or growly and torque-rich V8s, use much the same process to create power. The "Otto cycle" ...

What is one of the most critical variables you can set when building an engine? That could be a long debate, but compression is certainly one of the main ones. It dictates not only how much power you ...

Infiniti on Thursday gave a tech briefing on its remarkable new variable compression engine and confirmed the unit’s availability from 2018. The engine has been in development for almost two decades ...

The company claims it's production ready, but it's not slated to appear in any production car just yet. Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending years as a regular ol' car fanatic, he ...

Strictly defined, compression ratio is the total volume above the piston at bottom dead center (BDC), divided by the total volume above the piston at top dead center (TDC). First, let's look at the ...

There is no shortage of people around the world today who seem pretty certain that the days of the internal combustion engine (ICE) as the primary form of propulsion for transportation are effectively ...