Detroit Diesel’s two-stroke engines earned their “Screaming Jimmy” nickname the hard way, with a piercing exhaust note and relentless mechanical clatter that turned work sites, logging roads, and ...

It’s a shame that Detroit Diesel no longer makes marvelous two-stroke engines, at least for novelty’s sake. Of course, they were loud, inefficient and decisively terrible for the environment, so there ...

One of the most significant contributions in the history of propulsion technology came from a 19th-century engineer named Rudolf Diesel. While his idea was patented in the 1890s, it wouldn't be until ...