The Better Half VW conversion produces approximately 30 horsepower at 3400 rpm with standard 92mm cylinders, though builders can increase power to 37 horsepower or more by using larger bore cylinders.

It's not just the four-cylinder models. Now the EPA says VW used a similar cheat on its larger, six-cylinder diesel engines. Two months ago, Volkswagen admitted it had used a sophisticated trick to ...

Cylinder deactivation is pretty easy to understand in, say, a V8 or V12, where not all the pistons need to be firing all the time. But cylinder deactivation on a four-cylinder engine? That’s something ...

Automotive engine makers have their fads: V-8s, boxers, and inline-six engines have all caught the public's eye at one time ...

Volkswagen's engines don't have a particularly bad reputation for poor reliability, but there are some that should most ...

As the automotive propulsion industry shifts toward electrification, the last-of-breed combustion engines are a stultifyingly similar bunch, focused around the same CAD-optimized 500cc cylinder ...