Every new internal combustion car and truck sold in America today is equipped with a four-stroke engine, as are the vast majority of motorcycles. Today, if you hear the loud, ringing song of a ...

Learn more about how 2-stroke and 4-stroke engines work, as well as their differences. Our team of experts prepared a guide about everything you need to know about 2- and 4-stroke engines.

How Car Engines Work - Not Your Basic Four-Stroke Guide. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Process, But Were Afraid To Ask. HOT ROD Staff Writer Mar 01, 2008. See All 17 Photos.

This is how the combination of an engine, fuel, and air makes your car move, explained in plain English, in case you're not an engineer. ... The Four Strokes of a Four-Stroke Engine.

Two-stroke engines are relatively cheaper to manufacture but require more upkeep than four-stroke engines. ... Whenever a car is in use, its pistons pump harder than any action humanly possible.

You may have heard your car has a four-stroke engine, but you're not sure what that means. Why are there four? And what is a stroke, anyway? A modern gas engine most commonly uses pistons and a ...

The four-stroke engine that powers all of today's cars and trucks (except for the Tesla Roadster) was the brilliant invention of German Nikolas Otto who wisely realized that compressing the fuel ...

As PopMech’s autos editor, I obviously consider myself a car guy.But when it comes to two wheels, the capabilities of modern motorcycles astonish me. We now have road-legal bikes that produce ...

The Saab 96, with a four-cylinder, four-stroke engine, was introduced on Aug. 2, 1967. Saab's technically advanced and long-lived 96 was introduced in 1960, replacing the 93, and featured a two ...

For the most part, car engines are pretty conservative things—the vast majority of the cars you see and drive use one of a handful of basic engine designs and layouts. That’s why unusual ...