Lancia's comeback starts from the smallest model. It is quite incredible that the last Lancia Ypsilon lasted for 13 years. Even more incredible is that it still captured 45,000 units of sales in the ...

Brand new electric car from a brand new company, Lotus Technology. Emeya is a Lotus. No, it is not built in Hethel. Not designed by the same guys who created Elise, Emira, Exige and countless of ...

Interestingly, this car was originally named Milano after the north Italian city, but it is actually built in Tychy, Poland. Just days after its official announcement, it was backfired by Italian ...

As shown in the picture, straight-6 engine is simply a pair of 3-cylinder engines mated together symmetrically, thus piston 1 is always in the same position as piston 6, piston 2 the same as piston 5.

6 cylinder engines, no matter inline-6 or V6, are inherently smoother than 4-cylinder inline engines because all the first order and second order forces can be balanced. However, most small cars do ...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Japanese motor industry rose to the peak in the late 1980s, just before the burst of bubble economy. Their rising ego drove them to build countless ...

Japanese cars of the late 1980s and 1990s were renowned for high technology. The most notable of them was Mitsubishi Galant VR-4. Introduced in 1987, this car packed the most technologies this side of ...

The first time I heard about twin-scroll turbo was in 1989, when the updated Mazda RX-7 Mk2 introduced this feature. It was employed to seperate the exhaust gas from the Wankel engine's two rotors in ...

A refined engine should be smooth running, free of vibration and quiet. These qualities also help the engine to spin freer at high rpm, lifting red line hence power output. Engine smoothness depends ...

First introduced by Mercedes 300SL in 1954, tuned intake manifold is not exactly a new technology. It is discussed here just because its principle is useful to our further study of variable intake ...

By the late 1960s, Fiat became the largest car maker in Europe and a formidable automotive empire. Its product range spanned from micro cars to large luxury saloons. It even offered as many as 4 lines ...

Combining cam-changing VVT and cam-phasing VVT may satisfy the requirement of both top-end power and flexibility throughout the whole rev range, though it is inevitably more complex. At the time of ...