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 ...

In 1903, Dutch automaker Spyker created the world's first car powered by a straight-six engine. It was powered by a massive, 8.8-liter engine that made 60 hp of power, and it was sent to all four ...

If you were to pop open the hood of any random automobile on the planet, chances are extremely strong that you are going to see an inline engine — sometimes referred to as a straight engine — or a V ...

As for Chrysler, they went to great lengths to avoid the V8 fad at first, ensuring their much-beloved straight-eight engines lasted past the end of the war, even into the very early 1950s. This is the ...

America's automotive history is dominated by the V8. It's what we're most famous for. You can probably hear Jeremy Clarkson saying "V8 motor," with his less-than-kind American accent imitation. In ...

If you are shopping for a new car or motorcycle today, you will encounter several different types of internal combustion engines alongside the growing number of electric vehicles. One of the most ...

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 ...