"There are no bad ideas in a brainstorm," they say. Only slightly lesser well known is, "if there's a four stroke piston engine that's not a radial, Formula 1's tried it." There have been inline fours ...

Car companies used to have an obsession with the number 12, especially in Formula 1. The siren song of a duodecimal engine has ensnared many an automaker, resulting in shrieking double sixes with ...

While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...