As is the case with any industry, fashions come in and go in the automotive world. Some trends become things of the past because of changing tastes, like those gold badges on the backs of Toyota ...

Inline and V engines dominate modern combustion vehicle design. Each layout offers unique advantages in packaging, smoothness, cost, and performance. Here is how the two configurations differ and why ...

It's 2026, and you may not know it, but it's been exactly 70 years since the last true Packard automobile rolled off the assembly line. It happened in June 1956, and the said car was a Patrician ...

For decades, the gold standard brand for a straight-six-cylinder-powered sport sedan has been BMW. But the gold standard doesn't necessarily mean being the only general game in town worth considering.

Before Hudson was folded into American Motors, it had developed its own eight-cylinder engine. Yet for years, it stuck with its old-fashioned straight-6.

Discussing which engine is better between a straight-six and a V8 is something that feels like a plotline from The Fast and the Furious, if the franchise actually cared about cars. It’s “import versus ...