When it comes to buying a daily driver, few factors are as important as reliability. Since the engine is the very heart of a motor vehicle, it serves as an invaluable foundation of a car's true value ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- With their air-cooled engines sputtering to life, brand-new classic Volkswagen minivans chug off the assembly line after a manufacturing ritual barely changed since hippies turned ...

Amid tightening emissions regulations, car manufacturers are looking for new ways to make their engines more efficient. Volkswagen has used this year's Vienna Motor Symposium to unveil a range of new ...

Most enthusiast discussions about engines sometimes tend to boil down to V6 and V8 engines. They are the engines often associated with power and the flashier automobiles made throughout history.

Volkswagen is mired in a scandal. The company has admitted that it cheated on emissions tests, installing software that could detect when a vehicle was being checked out. The 2-liter TDI diesel engine ...

The Porsche 917, Audi’s defining Quattro all-wheel drive, TDI diesels—Ferdinand Piëch had a hand in them all. But as brilliant an engineer as he was, even Piëch had ideas whose potential proved a hair ...