I know there are lots of car engines that got stuffed into pretty much everything: the Iron Duke was shoved into everything from Camaros to mail trucks, and the original Volkswagen air-cooled ...

While we’ve seen a few range-extended vehicles in the United States, a number of new models are on the horizon. Besides the ...

There are lots of ways to blow up an engine: lack of maintenance, driving too hard, and cheap upgrades are just some of them. If you asked which of these caused this 2.0-liter turbo VW motor to go ...

My true forever Volkswagen love is actually my 2015 Jetta TDI S, not my VW GTI, in weirdly nice gray and with zero optional extras. After 247,000 miles of faithful service and an unfortunate episode ...

The five-cylinder engine at the heart of the fifth-gen Jetta was closely related to another engine twice its size: the ...

The Volkswagen Group has recently closed a 33-going-on-34-year-old chapter in the German automaker's long history. According to Volkswagen Passenger Cars communication manager Andreas Schleith, the ...

The VW diesel scandal began with a bang on September 18, 2015. On exactly the opening day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its ...

Amid tightening emissions regulations, car manufacturers are looking for new ways to make their engines more efficient. Volkswagen has used this year's Vienna Motor Symposium to unveil a range of new ...

The folks at Hagerty sure do love their timelapses, and their latest one might be the coolest yet. It's a six-minute clip of a Volkswagen Beetle engine being completely torn down and rebuilt, start to ...

The quad-turbo W16 in use in current Bugattis is a real engineering marvel, made of two banks of narrow-angle VR8 cylinder banks and quad-turbocharged. But before it was an ever stranger looking ...

Rev hang is a term describing an engine revving decreasing slowly Rev hang is used on purpose to curb NOx emissions Your driving style could be making it worse Manual transmissions are great, do not ...

If not for the well-deserved but still incredible success of the C8 Chevy Corvette, one might easily assume that affordable mid-engine sports cars are a mere chimera. Then again, not everyone has GM’s ...