Engine technology and layout can be complicated, but the configuration of cylinders in engines plays a huge part in a car’s performance. The fantastic middle ground of engine cylinders is those with ...

This BMW engine is used in some of the finest cars of the 1990s and pushes them to high-revving and tire-screeching levels - ...

V8s are too fuel-hungry, and four-cylinders too banal. The true goldilocks choice is the six-cylinder, and manufacturers know it. Why else would there be so many variants — inline, V, VR, flat?

Adrian has been engaged in automotive media and content creation since 2016, starting as an independent content creator in his spare time, before joining the CarBuzz Team as a writer in April 2024. A ...

Engines with odd numbers of cylinders aren’t very common. The only configurations that normally see used in automobiles are inline-three cylinder engines and inline-fives. Needless to say, an ...

One of the Corvair’s most interesting features, and the one that made it stand out in American automotive history, was its ...

To the uninitiated, inline-5 is just another engine configuration. To the faithful, however, it's religion. Its warbling, off-beat sound is as charismatic as anything in the automotive world. But it's ...

So, a flat engine is built super differently from other inline or v-style engines. Air-cooled flat engines are built even more differently. For example, on air-cooled Porsche 911s, the crankcase is ...