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BMW's innovative hot vee engine design paved the way for modern turbocharging and became an industry standard. How did it do ...

While some unreliable cars are worth the headache, reliability will always be an important factor for most buyers. This is especially relevant when it comes to turbocharged engines. Known for their ...

You can probably guess the brand, and the nameplate. Porsche simply has no one left to compete with but Porsche.

Building an engine for turbocharged duty is, for many, uncharted territory. Boost is a familiar cornucopia of manifold-topping superchargers, but the notion of having its source plumbed inline with ...

Until relatively recently, turbochargers were a pretty niche technology. Automakers such as Audi, Porsche, Saab, Subaru and Volvo still used them in some of their vehicles, but they weren't remotely ...

In production since 2018, the 2.7-liter turbo inline-four engine referred to as L3B has been hit with a customer satisfaction program. As it happens, a handful of engines may feature cracked blocks.

BMW is now known for making excellent turbocharged engines like the B58 inline-six, which powers models like the 340i and X3. Of course, the company didn't just stumble upon the formula for a ...

Here in HeraldNet’s Life and Travel section recently, my longtime car colleague Larry Lark gave his impression of the 2025 Mazda CX-90 PHEV (plug-in hybrid vehicle). As he mentioned, the CX-90 is also ...

Nissan wowed the automotive world when it introduced its Variable Compression (VC) Turbo technology in 2016. The innovative engine advancement, which essentially was capable of on-the-fly compression ...

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 ...