Turbocharged engines offer performance and efficiency, but come with unique long-term ownership challenges.

The downsizing of engines by carmakers is a strategy that's now all too familiar. Over the past decades, many automakers have had to shrink their engine sizes as part of efforts to comply with ...

Turbocharged engines can be great at boosting performance and efficiency, but in life, as in economics, there's no such thing as a free lunch. In other words, benefits like those come with a cost, ...

Buick used technology that no other American brand was brave enough to attempt, and they didn't even need 8 cylinders to prove its capabilities.

Even BMW and Porsche aren’t making as much power from their comparable engines. Like the larger six-cylinder unit, this model punches above its weight, with six-cylinder levels of power and torque but ...

Cheap turbos are nothing new. The thrifty, yet potent, snails have been on the market for quite some time. You've read about them before, probably seen one at your local dragstrip, and have maybe even ...

Introduced in August 2016, the first of two variable-compression turbocharged engines developed by Nissan rolled out in series production one year later in the 2019 Infiniti QX50. The original engine ...

With its newest Skyactiv engine, Mazda is trying to change the way people talk about engine output. As it launches a new 250-hp, 2.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder in the redesigned 2016 CX-9, the ...

Ford is pulling the plug on its 2.0-liter twin-turbo EcoBlue diesel engine in markets around the world, after removing it from the European lineup earlier this year. The Blue Oval will replace the ...

At MM&FF, we just love it when a manufacturer hands us parts and tells us to go beat the living snot out of 'em. Not that we're especially abusive here, but we know our readers love nothing more than ...

Regardless of the larger target of extracting big power from your engine build is the primary goal of building a well-tuned combination that provides strong performance across the rpm band. And as ...