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 ...

We wholeheartedly agreed with the Beach Boys back when they sang "She's real fine, my 409," but today we're singing a slightly different tune. With apologies to the guys in the band, we're singing ...

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 ...

Last week, the car internet was lit ablaze by a patent from Porsche that depicted a design for a W-shaped, turbocharged, 18-cylinder engine. The patent was cool for a lot of reasons: It features a ...

After giving up on its EV fever dream of the past few years and reembracing internal-combustion power, Porsche engineers have been busy cooking up new designs that promise to deliver more power with ...

Bugatti’s famed 16-cylinder is the first W-configuration engine used in a passenger vehicle. It’s also been a fixture of the two hypercars, and their many variants, that the company has built since it ...

To celebrate the epic 20-year run of this 12-cylinder mill, Bentley organized a Poker Run Rally in the City of Angels. The rally format gets its name from the fact that every participant receives a ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...