Gasoline is one of those products that looks almost identical no matter where it is purchased. The pump may show the same 87, 89, or 93 octane number, yet the…

Mazda has built a reputation for making cars that are stylish, enjoyable to drive, well equipped, and different from the mainstream. Yet despite those strengths, the brand does not have…

Bushings rarely get any credit under the hood, yet almost every moving part of a car's suspension depends on them. Tucked inside control arms, sway bars, and subframes, these small…

The Ford Taurus spent two full decades as one of the most common cars on American roads — and across those twenty years it went through enough engine changes to…

Ford's diesel engineers made a genuinely deliberate choice back in 2011 that most Super Duty owners never think twice about. When the company finally designed its own diesel V8 in-house,…

One Ford V8 fires its cylinders in two completely different orders depending purely on which vehicle it's bolted into. The exact same 5.0-liter Coyote engine block, sold under a Mustang…

A German-developed V6 from the 1990s and a modern twin-turbocharged EcoBoost engine built decades later fire their cylinders in the exact same sequence under a Ford Explorer's hood.  Almost nothing…

One firing order pattern connects a Ford Escape built last year to a completely unrelated Ford engine from 1966, decades before this SUV even existed. That's not a coincidence or…

Six. That's how many genuinely different firing sequences have powered a Ram 1500 since 1994, more than almost any other nameplate on American roads. A V10 borrowed distant heritage from…

A 2009 Dodge Journey and a 2019 Dodge Journey share the same basic body structure underneath, something almost no other crossover on sale today can claim after an entire decade…