The NSU Ro 80 arrived in 1967 as a family sedan that bet everything on a radical rotary engine and a shape that looked like ...

The Benda Dark Flag 950 blends old-school cruiser looks with the smooth punch of a modern V4 engine. Cruisers are one of ...

Note: It’s purely MotoGP. Now that we have that clarified, here’s the big breaking news: Yamaha recently declared that it was formally retiring its iconic inline-four "big-bang" M1 – the same platform ...

Yamaha will not try out its prototype V4 engine at the post-weekend Aragon MotoGP test. At Silverstone, the image was clear to see. The Yamaha bikes struggling down the straights while being reeled in ...

V4 engines developed specifically for automobiles are now extinct, but they were at the heart of several cars throughout history. Now widely used by motorcycle manufacturers, the V4 engine was first ...

V4 engines are few and far between(except in motorcycles). It's the reverse situation from 8-cylinder engines, where there are scores of V8s and a count-them-on-one ...

Dmitry is a former Motorcycle Safety Foundation Rider-Coach, a writer of several fiction novels, a travel junky and an occasional YouTuber. He's owned and ridden a lot of motorcycles, loves vintage ...

Hardcore gearheads are well-versed in engine nomenclature, but for folks whose car knowledge ends with the difference between a manual and automatic transmission, engine designations can seem ...