Meet the latest member of the Hellcat family, which combines the base “orange block” lower end with the Demon’s valvetrain to ...

Start/stop systems are among the simplest ideas in automotive history—turn off the engine when you don’t need it, save fuel, and start again when you do. Passenger cars embraced this decades ago, but ...

Michal studies Automotive Journalism at Coventry University in the UK, and has been writing for CarBuzz since March 2025. He was nominated for student culture piece of the year recently and has been ...

Report No. 3 in our series on building a 350-cubic-inch Chevy V-8 engine comes to us from Jeff Smith by way of our October 1989 issue. Preparing a block and blueprinting are critical first steps in ...

The first production car engine with variable valve timing (VVT) came from Alfa Romeo in 1980. It was installed in the fuel-injected Alfa Romeo Spider. Before this, a few experimental systems existed, ...

The 2025 Formula 1 season has begun in incredible competitive fashion as four-time defending world champion Max Verstappen no longer owns the sport's top spot. Verstappen and Red Bull have taken a ...

ANAHEIM, California—Volvo Trucks North America now has a diesel engine that meets stringent California emissions regulations, the OEM announced during the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo. Volvo ...

Do you know what a timing belt or a timing chain is and what they do? Could you find them on your vehicle's engine if you had to? If you answered no, don't sweat it. Both are buried behind a lot of ...

On New Years Eve 2015, my family and I were driving eastbound down the Ohio turnpike in my beloved 2002 Saturn L300. Everything was fine until, just past the Route 250 exit, the IP lit up like a ...

The launch of its new VNR truck was the talk of the TMC Annual Meeting in Nashville March 10-13. But Volvo Trucks North America also took the opportunity to take the wraps off a brand-new diesel ...