Gilbert Smith is an automotive journalist with over five years of specialized research and writing experience. Before joining CarBuzz in 2024, he produced in-depth buyer’s guides and feature articles ...

Selecting the best engine configuration depends on balancing smoothness, packaging efficiency, manufacturing cost, and power ...

BMW is a manufacturer famous for a wide variety of reasons: its contemporary luxury designs, racing prowess, and storied history, to name a few. One of its most distinctive elements across all of ...

Boxer engines are legendary, thanks to manufacturers like Porsche and Subaru. However, while they have many advantages, they ...

Ah, the Wankel rotary engine. The Dorito-spinning engine configuration is perhaps one of the coolest, and financially most terrifying, bits of automotive engineering. Best known for its appearance in ...

The B-52 Stratofortress carries eight engines for one simple reason: the technology of the 1940s, when it was designed, wasn't capable of powering it with anything less. Engineers didn't have much ...

A diesel engine is simultaneously incredibly simple and incredibly violent, using compression as a means of ignition. This is because of the properties of diesel fuel: Namely, diesel is less volatile ...

BMW is mostly known for one type of engine — the straight-six. While the Bavarians have built some fantastic engines of other configurations as well, such as V8s, V12s and inline-fours. However, there ...