The straight-six layout lends itself to smoothness, with relatively little vibration in comparison to other popular ...

Inline-six engines are thriving. From BMW and Mercedes to Mazda and Stellantis’ Hurricane, see which car companies still build the world's smoothest engines.

Five-cylinder engines occupy a strange sweet spot in automotive history, sitting between the balance of a straight-six and the compact packaging of a four-cylinder. They have powered everything from ...

British car company Jaguar rose to prominence thanks to its brilliant straight-six engines. This was the last Jag to use one.

Silky smooth and impressively powerful, inline-six engines, with all cylinders in a single row, are praised by drivers for their sophisticated performance and distinctive engine note. As a result, ...

To the uninitiated, inline-5 is just another engine configuration. To the faithful, however, it's religion. Its warbling, off-beat sound is as charismatic as anything in the automotive world. But it's ...

As for Chrysler, they went to great lengths to avoid the V8 fad at first, ensuring their much-beloved straight-eight engines lasted past the end of the war, even into the very early 1950s. This is the ...