Worn or broken piston rings will make an engine louder and less powerful, and create smoke in the exhaust, as well as increasing oil burn.

The most reliable sports car you can pick up today, if it wasn't already obvious, is the Mazda MX-5 Miata. While reliability isn't generally on your mind when you're banging gears and torturing tires ...

Constantly low on oil, getting bad fumes, or is your engine not as peppy as it once was? Your car's engine may be experiencing the dreaded blow-by.

SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - GE Aerospace (GE.N), opens new tab technician Suresh Sinnaiyan has spent more than a decade repairing jet‑engine compressor blades by guiding them across a sanding belt ...

Formula 1 teams are testing in Bahrain this week, but a storm is brewing in the background that might turn the season on its head. A rule change could be introduced to rein in the Mercedes power units ...

The FIA’s single seater director Nikolas Tombazis says the governing body hopes to reach a pre-Australian Grand Prix solution to the ongoing engine saga. This update comes after Cadillac F1 CEO Dan ...

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has conceded the German manufacturer would be "screwed" if Formula 1 and the FIA shared the opinion of rival power unit suppliers in the ongoing engine compression ...

McLaren have spoken out on the engine compression row that has engulfed F1 ahead of the 2026 season. Much of the build up to the new F1 campaign, which sees sweeping new power unit and chassis ...

Mercedes could see its power units restricted after the Power Unit Advisory Committee proposed measures to the FIA to prevent the German marque from using its compression-ratio trick. Over the winter, ...

A loophole in Formula 1’s new technical regulations offers a way around the 16:1 compression ratio cap, introducing controversy before the season even starts. Technical manoeuvring to push regulatory ...