Videos from the 2010 Ward's 10 Best Engines Ceremony: Opening/Welcome Keynote: Henrik Fisker, Fisker Automotive Audi: 2.0L TFSI Turbocharged DOHC I-4 Audi: 3.0L TFSI Supercharged DOHC V-6 BMW: 3.0L DOHC I-6 Turbodiesel Ford: 2.5L ...

Videos from the 2010 Ward's 10 Best Engines Ceremony: Opening/Welcome Keynote: Henrik Fisker, Fisker Automotive Audi: 2.0L TFSI Turbocharged DOHC I-4 Audi: 3.0L TFSI Supercharged DOHC V-6 BMW: 3.0L DOHC I-6 Turbodiesel Ford: 2.5L ...

A winner in 2009 when we tested it in the Escape Hybrid, the system in the Fusion Hybrid boasts mechanical, engineering and software upgrades.

Subaru’s excellent 2.5L turbocharged boxer engine provides the ideal mix of restrained power and frugal sensibility. It’s the cure for the boring family sedan.

We are not trying to hold V-8s back. We simply are holding them to a higher standard than we used to.

More is more. In fact, more is more than enough when it’s under the hood of the ’10 Land Rover LR4.

It seems appropriate the first time the 10 Best Engines list has two hybrids on it, the Prius would be one of them. One Ward’s editor seeking maximum mileage averaged 56.5 mpg.

Audi stands as one of of the few luxury brands confident enough to stake its reputation on a 4-cyl. engine in a fiercely competitive 6-cyl. market.

There are lots of mainstream 4-cyl. engines in cars and CUVs, but none of them makes as much power as GM’s 2.4L direct-injection Ecotec in the Chevy Equinox.

The intense engineering focus on noise, vibration and harshness, and reducing friction and mass, seems evident with every spin of the crankshaft.