Modern internal combustion engines — including those that run on diesel fuel — require a lot of special parts and systems to prevent dumping excess emissions into the atmosphere. Not only are those ...

I’m not sure if any engine built today will still be salvageable 100 years from now. Not to sound like a grump, but so much relies on computers that will surely be obsolete by then. And let’s not get ...

American publisher Charles Knight was not at all impressed with his new 1901 Knox ‘gasoline runabout’. Like some other cars of the era, its four-stroke engine relied on a single valve to permit both ...

The diesel engine dates back to the 1890s when Rudolf Diesel, a German inventor and mechanical engineer, created the powerplant for use in commercial power generation applications. The design ...

40 years is a long time in the automotive world. While a few prized cars from the 1980s may be exploding in value, not many would consider their 40-year-old engine technology reliable. One diesel ...

It's no secret that diesel engines aren't nearly as popular in the U.S. as they are in Europe and other markets. Reasons for this range from the disaster that was GM's attempt at diesel engines in the ...