Cost is often the first thing that comes to mind when motorists think of gasoline. Many will drive halfway across town to save a couple cents per gallon. Additionally, purchasing regular-grade fuel to save money can be an exercise in false economy, especially if your vehicle is designed for premium gas.
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A V8 swap isn’t for the faint of heart.
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The scoop on Mazda’s plans for EVs, hybrids, the delayed diesel, a rotary revival and more.
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The best engines on sale today. But two aren’t engines at all.
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Engine nerds, this one is for you!
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The Dream Cruise is a true cross-section of the automotive world.
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A recent patent application suggests Mazda is working on a pretty crazy engine.
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Aside from being simpler, cleaner and cheaper, this design can run on any fuel and is 50 percent more efficient.
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Better fuel economy and performance are the main goals here.
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From steak dinners and airline seats to yearly salaries, bigger is always better; it’s also the same with engine size, right?
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This brand-new bent-six breaks a lot of new ground.
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Each year engines come and go, as automakers find better ways to squeeze performance while improving fuel economy.
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Volkswagen has released details on its latest small displacement engine.
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In the race to improve efficiency and cut emissions, more and more automakers are turning to forced induction as a way of increasing fuel economy without sacrificing drivability.
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Direct injection offers numerous benefits over port fuel delivery but could it be a bigger headache than it’s worth?
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Chrysler is preparing to add direct injection and turbocharging to its line of Pentastar V6 engines in order to increase output and enhance fuel economy.
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Daimler is expanding its stake in Aston Martin as a part of the previously announced for AMG to provide engines to the British exotic car builder.
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It’s hard to beat the noises a well-designed, high-performance engine makes; experiencing this is of life’s great pleasures, especially when it isn’t adulterated by restrictive exhaust systems or synthesized bullshit piped through a vehicle’s speakers.
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Jaguar Land Rover has revealed its next-generation engine family: Ingenium.
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Since 1999, Engine Technology International Magazine has awarded the International Engine of the Year Award and this year’s winners have been announced.
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Welcome to the final installment of Trans Wars, a three-part miniseries exploring the automatic transmission. So far we’ve compared torque-converter and dual-clutch units, but these two gearboxes aren’t the only ones on the market today.
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In yesterday’s installment of Trans Wars we explored the benefits and downsides of conventional automatic gearboxes, ones that feature fluid-filled torque converters. This type of transmission has been around for more than 50 years; it works well and has pretty much become the industry standard.
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Join us for a three-part miniseries exploring the ins and outs of automatic transmissions. For the first installment we celebrate heritage by tipping our hats to a great motoring tradition that’s as American as baseball, apple pie and Oldsmobile. This is Trans Wars!
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Mazda might soon be spurred to fit a turbocharger to its SkyActiv four-cylinder gasoline engine in order to power the next generation CX-9.
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