Engine sound has long been treated as a performance metric, a kind of acoustic dyno sheet that tells drivers how hard a car is working. As digital audio and electrification spread, engine sounds are ...

Engines with odd numbers of cylinders aren’t very common. The only configurations that normally see used in automobiles are inline-three cylinder engines and inline-fives. Needless to say, an ...

For budding car enthusiasts, it's a badge of honor to correctly identify the number of cylinders in an engine just by its exhaust note. The number of cylinders plays a vital role in how an engine ...

The track-only Gordon Murray T.50s Niki Lauda is shaping up to be quite the beast and based on a new video of the firm testing its V12 on the dyno, it will also sound unique. Like the road-going T.50, ...