Five-cylinder engines occupy a strange sweet spot in automotive history, sitting between the balance of a straight-six and the compact packaging of a four-cylinder. They have powered everything from ...

To the uninitiated, inline-5 is just another engine configuration. To the faithful, however, it's religion. Its warbling, off-beat sound is as charismatic as anything in the automotive world. But it's ...

Motorcycle engines come in all shapes and sizes. Single-cylinder thumpers, parallel twins, inline-threes, high-revving fours, burly V4s and V-twins, even the occasional flat-eight. But one layout ...

BMW has dropped some potent engines under the hoods of its cars and SUVs over the years, from inline-four cylinder dynamos like the E30 M3's 2.3-liter beast to the exclusive but elite group of V12s ...