And among them stands the undisputed king: a massive big-block crate engine with more displacement than any other bowtie V8 and horsepower figures that venture into four digits. This is Chevrolet at ...

This 427ci sleeper is a good reason why you don’t judge an engine by the size of its block. The art of deception plays a significant role in the hot rod world. Although most enthusiasts are ...

The U.S. is known as the land of excess for many reasons. Take the automotive landscape, for example. You have big SUVs and even bigger engines. However, there was a time when engines in American cars ...

Automakers are quietly rewriting the rules of power under the hood, shrinking engines even as vehicles, especially SUVs, keep ...

Hot rod builds a mouse trap and tries to catch a rat. Originally published in the August 1998 issue of Hot Rod magazine. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring ...

Actively reporting, writing, and editing on automotive news and since 2021, Dave has brought his acerbic wit and love of European car culture to brands such as HotCars, CarBuzz,and TopSpeed.

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Aston Martin's DBS successor will feature a new V-12 engine because it's what its customers want. So said Alex Long, the automaker's head of product and marketing strategy, in a recent interview with ...

While Mercedes-Benz is going all in on its EQ lineup of EVs, the luxury automaker still makes gas powered engines for the time being. But the brand has been downsizing, especially with its AMG ...

While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...

I don't know if you know this, but space is really freaking big. So to get there, we need to turn to some pretty enormous machines. The rockets that shoot satellites, astronauts and other craft into ...