Automobile engines have undergone tons of changes over the years, primarily to make them more efficient. For the most part though, engine changes result from a string of iterative improvements on ...

A cutaway image of a direct-injected BMW engine - Ton1~commonswiki/Wikimedia Commons Until the early 1990s, many gasoline engine designs relied on carburetors to produce the fuel-air mixture needed to ...

Most new petrol cars you see today are equipped with fuel injection systems or injector motors. These have almost wholly supplanted older carburetor motors. They are more reliable, effective, and ...

The first production gasoline car with fuel injection was not the famous Mercedes 300 SL, but a tiny postwar German car that ...

Direct-injected engines helped modern vehicles produce better fuel economy and stronger performance, but mechanics are increasingly warning that carbon buildup has become a serious long-term ...