With its symmetrical design and even firing order, the inline-six engine delivers a level of balance and smoothness that's hard to match. However, being longer than most V8s, packaging constraints ...

The inline-six engine is a masterpiece of mechanical harmony. While many modern cars use compact V6 layouts for compact packaging under the hood, the straight-six remains the gold standard for driving ...

After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...

The Toyota 2JZ-GTE inline-6 engine is widely regarded as one of Toyota's best engines of the 1990s. Many gearheads and enthusiasts take things even further, though, placing the 2JZ-GTE among the ...

It all started in 1966. Nissan introduced the L20, its first L-Series design that came in a two-liter, straight-six format, in the Nissan Cedric. It was okay, but not great. By the next year, Nissan's ...