Increasing an engine’s compression ratio is a proven way of unlocking extra horsepower, but there’s a point of diminishing returns. The team at Garage 54, the Russian mechanics who built a V16 using ...

A fundamental difference between gasoline and diesel engines is that a gasoline engine uses spark ignition while a diesel engine uses compression ignition. Before we delve deeper, let's understand how ...

Mazda has never been afraid of some truly odd engine designs. It keeps trying to make the Wankel work. It has a gas engine with compression ignition. And the company has made 14:1 compression gas ...