Unless you drive a Wankel rotary, your combustion engine vehicle has pistons, and each of those pistons has three rings. Why ...

A broken piston may be to blame for the locomotive fire that set off a chain of events leading to the rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Que., an investigation by the railroad company suggests.

Spectators at a diesel truck performance event in Indiana got a bit of an explosive show watching a Cummins Dodge Ram blow up on the dyno, as parts rained down on the crowd. The 2021 Ultimate Callout ...

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

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Moses Karomo is an enthusiastic automotive writer who can talk and write endlessly about cars. He has extensive automotive reporting experience, writing about all manner of automotive topics. He keeps ...

Remarkable innovations have been made to automotive technology since Karl Benz introduced the world to the "Motorwagen" in 1866 and Henry Ford gave rise to the American auto industry with the Model T ...