For a street car, you might consider 400 horsepower to be a mighty figure for a highly-tuned four-cylinder engine. For the boffins at Elmer Racing, though, that’s nothing. Their latest four-banger is ...

Ford Motor Company's 4-cylinder engines have always been popular with the hot rodding set. Even in the days of the flathead, a beefed-up flattie four Ford was a force to be reckoned with. And as the ...

Four-cylinder engines are usually associated with efficiency and compact packaging, yet a handful of engineers have stretched the format to astonishing sizes. The five engines below represent some of ...

While electric and hybrid power trains are leading in the performance race, when it comes to pure internal combustion engines, you'd think the only way to achieve horsepower heaven would be to get a ...

Pontiac premier 4-cylinder drag racing entry is the Rod Shop's G/A Fiero driven by Larry Morgan. It has already won two national events in NHRA's Competition Eliminator. Pontiac's 151-cubic-inch 92-hp ...

BMW just unveiled the M2 Racing, based on the roadgoing M2 — but instead of an inline-six, it has a four-cylinder engine under the hood. Has BMW gone the way of the E30 M3 and determined that ...

Photo: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Often ridiculed by many gearheads, four-cylinder engines can be as potent as those with twice as many cylinders. Four-cylinders were among the first types of internal ...