V engines are not uncommon in the biking world ... which happened to be of a four-stroke configuration - and create one piston from two, effectively turning the engine into a four-banger while ...

Ferrari is exploring a groundbreaking approach to the internal combustion engine, as revealed by a recent European patent filing. Departing from the industry-standard round pistons, this new design ...

“As pistons have a cylindrical shape, the driving engines for vehicles of known type have some drawbacks, mainly deriving ...

Existing 12-cylinder cars like the Purosangue and 12Cilindri currently do not have any hybrid helpers, but are likely to ...

Ferrari has filed a patent for an engine with pill-shaped pistons, a radical departure from traditional circular piston designs. While Honda famously experimented with oval pistons in the late ...

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 ...

In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the world of piston engine design, from single-cylinder all the way up to radial twelve-cylinder engines.