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You saw this coming, right? We argued over the merits of the best four-cylinder, the best inline six, and the best V8, and we'll get to the V6s, V12s, radials, and everything else... someday. Today, however, we choose the king. More »
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Last winter, we asked for your opinions on the Most Legendary V8 Of All Freakin' Time and the Most Legendary Inline Six... and then I totally spaced on what may be the most important Legendary Engine question of all! More »
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Engines manufactured by Continental 1920s and 1930s powered about four million cars, which seems moderately impressive. Read Daniel Strohl's list of Continental-powered marques, however, and you'll be floored! More »
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As we continue to work on the Ultimate Engine Survivors Honor Roll, certain engines start to stand out for their incredibly long lifespans. Here's one that was built in some form from 1947 through at least 1997. More »
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After the agonized debate over the most legendary inline six of all time, we have no choice but to roll this grenade into the room! More »
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Now here's a QOTD that's sure to get the single-interest fanatics swinging their sabers at the neck-pipes of perceived infidels, but we're hoping that y'all can dredge up some, like, objectivity here: Which I6 engine is most legendary? More »
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We honored the Pontiac OHC Six, which was based on the Chevrolet 230, a couple weeks back. Today, we honor the pushrod Chevy! More »
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It isn't often that an engine makes the front page of Wikipedia, but not many engines score as high on the Ass-Kick-O-Meter™ as the Rolls-Royce R! More »
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How would the Malaise Era have played out for The General if he hadn't given up on Pontiac's high-performance SOHC inline six of the mid-1960s? More »
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The great thing about this series is that we're nowhere near running out of engines that were made by the millions, for decades. Ford's workhorse I6 racked up close to a quarter-century of front-line service, from 1960 to 1984. More »
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A pushrod, carburetor-fed V8 from BMW? Sure, but you have to go back about a half-century. More »
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After World War II ended, Americans knew what they wanted: overhead-valve V8s and plenty of them! It took a few years, but almost every manufacturer had one by the mid-1950s. Studebaker joined the V8 club in 1951. More »
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We've already honored the Ford "Pinto" OHC engine here, but what about the pushrod four that served as the early Pinto's base engine? More »
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After we had Engine Of The Day Overload last weekend, I got the usual flurry of emails pointing out the really important stuff I'd overlooked. One engine kept coming up, though: the mighty Toyota JZ! More »
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We've been doing the Engine Of The Day series for a couple of years, so it's time we put all 74 EOTD honorees together! More »
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If we ever get around to doing an Ultimate Engine Survivors list (to accompany the Survivor Cars list), this engine will surely be near the top. 47 years and counting! More »
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With 20 years of service, installation in dozens of different vehicles, and an excellent racing record, the Nissan VG definitely deserves Engine Of The Day honors. More »
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Two-stroke engines for cars have always been on the smoky and noisy side, but they sure do make a lot of power for their size! More »
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How long does an engine family need to survive in front-line use to become a legend? 42 years, like the Toyota R? 47, as with the small-block Chevy? Today's engine may have them both beat! More »
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We get quite a few suggestions for EOTD honors and we try to get to all of them, but a tip from a Fiat X1/9 racer always gets jumped to the front of the line! More »
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In this series, we'd like to honor the engines that were made in vast quantities and/or remained in front-line service for decades (in addition to low-production Ass-Kickin' Engines), and the BMW "Little Six" definitely qualifies. More »
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Here we've got an engine that The General has been building for more than 50 years (if you count crate motors), and which powered some of the all-time wildest machines during the Muscle Car Era. More »
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While The General may be King Of The Pushrod V8, those Yurpeans have cooked up some pretty good overhead-cam competition. How about a straight-from-the-factory V8 that redlines at a lunatic 8,250 RPM? More »
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The BMC B engine was built for nearly 30 years, but its little brother remained in front-line service for close to 50 years. That's up there with the legendary Toyota R! More »
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One fun thing about this series is the vast quantity of big-displacement V8s built by Detroit during the second half of the 20th century. We'll never run out! More »
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We've been doing this Engine Of The Day business for a couple years now, yet we haven't seen a single Ferrari engine? Whoops! More »
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An industrial engine from a forklift company that went on to win at Le Mans? The four-cylinder, SOHC Climax FW started out powering water pumps on fire trucks, then had some serious diversification. More »
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Built in large- in fact, vast- quantities from 1977 through 1993, the 151-cubic-inch Iron Duke four-cylinder served The General well, though generally without much recognition. More »
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This Swedish inline-four debuted in 1981, but it was essentially a redesign of the 1972 Saab-Scania B engine, which itself was based on the- wait, can this be right?- Triumph Slant Four engine. More »
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Mitsubishi hasn't been well represented in this series, so let's follow up its Astron engine with another Mitsubishi four-cylinder: the Sirius. More »
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We've only seen one V12 Engine Of The Day so far? Unacceptable! Let's take a look at an engine that you Project Car Hell masochists should have no problem obtaining cheap at the junkyard! More »
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It seems that at least a couple of Taurus SHOs show up to any given 24 Hours Of LeMons race, so I've become quite familiar with the sound of this engine at full scream. More »
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Maybe it didn't make financial sense for GM to have each division design its own engines- a policy that continued into, and sometimes beyond, the Malaise Era- but the results were some excellent pushrod V8s! More »
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For some reason, I thought we'd already given EOTD honors to this fine engine- more than 40 years of front-line service and endless racing glory certainly qualifies- but such was not the case. More »
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A 9,000-RPM inline-four engine that makes 247 naturally aspirated horsepower out of just two liters of displacement? That's what the Honda S2000's powerplant does! More »
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The very nervous 3-cylinder engine found in the Chevrolet Sprint Turbo was part of the very successful and long-lived Suzuki G engine family. More »
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Nobody does pushrod V8s like The General, and the LS is proof that you don't need some crazy Rube Goldberg tangle of chains and camshafts clattering all over the place to make 21st-century power. More »
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Toyota will often keep a winning engine design going for decades, as we've seen with the 5-decade R engine. Toyota's inline-six M engine soldiered on for nearly 30 years. More »
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Our last Chrysler EOTD was built for aircraft use, so today we'll be honoring one of Chrysler's earthbound engine families: the big-block B series, which came in displacements of 350, 361, 383, and 400 cubes. More »
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The Mercedes-Benz OM617 5-cylinder diesel is quite the engineering marvel, but we mustn't forget that Mercedes-Benz also made one of our favorite V8s of all time. More »
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