Across more than a century of automotive history, a handful of engines have earned reputations for surviving abuse, neglect, ...

On Feb. 23, 1892, Rudolf Diesel obtained German patent RP 67207 for an internal combustion engine that required no ignition source and proved over time far more mechanically efficient than ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

In each issue of Diesel Power, the Baselines department will take a look back at the history of diesel-powered vehicles. This peek into the past of diesels will cover powerplants, historic diesel ...

For the first time in its 21-year lifespan, the Cadillac Escalade will offer an optional diesel powertrain when the fifth-gen mega-hauler goes on sale later this year. That's good news for those who ...

LML, like many other GM product codes, doesn't stand for anything at all, and is merely a sequence of letters meant to denote ...

Diesel aircraft engines promise lower fuel burn and cheaper operating costs at a time when every gallon and every kilogram ...

For the first time in its 35-year history, Mercedes’ AMG division is offering a performance-orientated diesel engine—at least for the Euro market. The new four-valve-per-cylinder unit is based on ...

Heavy duty diesel engines are designed for long hours and extreme loads, but even the toughest systems fail without early ...

The first locomotive to successfully use an AC (alternating current) three-phase asynchronous traction motor drive system was the German DE2500 diesel-electric in 1971, built by Henschel-BBC. DB ...

Internal combustion engines are incredibly complicated machines that many of us interact with on a daily basis, but don't completely understand. You get in your car, turn the key or push the start ...

Once the Audi TT RS leaves production after this model year, just two cars will come equipped with five-cylinder engines, the Audi RS3 and (not-sold-in-America) RS Q3. Figure those two will be around ...