After almost a decade of Best Engines competitions, if there's one thing I can say I've learned, it's to never underestimate Detroit's shortsightedness. Back in 1995, the first year for Best Engines, we had Ford's Duratec, Cadillac's Northstar...
TOCHIGI, Japan It's beginning to look like Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. is going to pull this thing off. Two years into the radical Revival Plan crafted to bring it back from the brink of fiscal ruin, Nissan and its no-bullcrap President Carlos Ghosn bet...
At a time when many automakers are shedding their inline 6-cyl. engines, General Motors Corp. is pulling full speed ahead with its new all-aluminum I-6 engineered for its redesigned family of midsize SUVs GMC Envoy/Chevrolet TrailBlazer/Oldsmobile...
FARMINGTON HILLS, MI It started innocently enough in Japan at a Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. advanced-powertrain discussion in 1990. Engineers believed the company needed to replace its iron-block V-6 engines with a new-generation V-6 design that would...
Metaldyne Corp. has been winning a fair amount of business since it was formed a year ago (see editorial, p.5), but the company is particularly proud of a $200 million contract it won to produce two transmission clutch modules for a major North...
Orbital Engine Corp. Ltd., the company best-known for its dogged development of the 2-stroke engine for transportation applications, has all but left the 2-stroke behind as it morphs into a automotive supplier with plenty of new business activity...
Take a good look at my picture and name, because I probably won't be back as a 10 Best Engines judge. I can hear my co-judges saying in unison: You-are-the-weakest-link, goodbye. I didn't mix with the voting pattern. Some of my picks were...
More than 100 million searches are done every day on the Internet as people surf the World Wide Web trying to find something. A Georgia Institute of Technology study found that 87% of surfers use search engines to locate web sites. That should...