Two of the top 10 engines do what they do so well with a mere four cylinders not a bad representation. But one easily can argue that eking award-worthy power out of a 4-banger is a far greater achievement than wowing the masses with a smooth six...
My fellow judges consider me public enemy No.1 because I have this thing about small-displacement engines. It's no fetish just a deep-seated respect for a powerplant that does its job efficiently, quietly and with enough gusto to fool me into...
Welcome to the eighth annual installment of the Ward's 10 Best Engines awards. Our list of the year's best engines remains the auto industry's only best of list to concentrate solely on the engine, what we consider to be any vehicle's single most...
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...