Toyota is revolutionizing the automotive industry with its groundbreaking W-Piston Free-Piston Engine, which achieves an impressive 50% efficiency. This innovation not only promises enhanced ...

Automobile engine designs with W-configurations and double-digit cylinder-counts rank among the most complicated car engines ever made. While other automakers have more-or-less accomplished combining ...

The 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 arrived at the peak of the muscle car wars with numbers that looked merely competitive, yet it built a reputation for delivering speed that actually translated to the ...

Internal combustion engine development is far from stagnant these days, in spite of the advances in electric powertrains in recent decades—and this patent from Porsche concerning a W-style cylinder ...

There are quite a few rare Chevy V8s. I could go on about '56 Corvette dual-quad 265s with Duntov cams, ZL-1s, L88s, L89 aluminum-headed 396s, and L84 fuel-injected 327s. Rarer still is the Z-11 427 W ...