Toyota famously trolled enthusiasts at the Tokyo Auto Salon by teasing a “mid-engine, two-seater car” that turned out to be a hopped-up Daihatsu kei truck. The backlash was immediate. But now, Toyota ...

If you were to assemble a group of the best automakers in the world to build the perfect car, you might have Lamborghini style it, Mercedes do the interior, and Porsche design the chassis. A strong ...

Engine building development advances because manufacturers and performance specialists work to achieve higher power output, better efficiency, and longer engine lifespan. The combination of hybrid ...

Mercury Marine had never built anything but boat motors when Chevy turned to it for the ZR-1's new V8. But it had a long, ...

Your car and your motorboat both rely on engines to move, but both vehicles use very different types of engines in order to ...

Summit Racing Equipment sent us one of its 6.0L bare blocks a while ago, tasking us to scrutinize it as the basis for a performance build, and more recently, Trick Flow Specialties shipped us its ...

We are three-quarters of the way through the rebuild of a 383-inch big-block for the car we have dubbed the Cornfield Coronet. In previous issues we covered the disassembly of the engine (July '12), ...

Sometimes profiling a builder is as simple and natural for us as turning the ignition key on one of our vehicles. Hesco has been building engines for more than 34 years. Why does this interest us?