The Oldsmobile Rocket 88 burst onto the scene in 1949, dazzling car enthusiasts with its innovative design and powerful V8 engine. This was no ordinary vehicle; it was a trailblazer, combining a ...

but it makes this car ridiculously fast. Try passing the traps in 12.9 seconds at 105 mph in a FWD pocket rocket normally restricted to 15.7 seconds at 88 mph. Credit for the engine swap goes to a ...

But, as a little sting in the tale, there is one unique aspect to the Rene Bonnet Djet - it was the world's first production car to get a mid-rear engine layout. And here's another curveball ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

When the idea of an engine hacks theme was being kicked around at Hack a Day, the subject of rocket engines was one of the first to come up. There was a problem though; solid rocket motors are far ...

The slowed-down video shows the rocket’s 33 Raptor engines firing up as the enormous 120-meter-tall vehicle leaves the launchpad. With the rocket pumping out a colossal 17 million pounds of ...

Photo: Stoke Space The first stage of the rocket is designed to use seven liquefied natural gas (LNG) - liquid oxygen (LOX) engines, and to return back to the launch pad after helping its cargo ...

It’s an intriguing thing, the Light Car Company Rocket. Masterminded and built by ... has a tuned 1070cc Yamaha bike engine that produces 171bhp (up from 143) at a heady 10,500rpm.

Something to look forward to: Scientists have created a laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine that could revolutionize space travel. Based on a magnetic plasma accelerator ...

A trip to Mars may be in the books for future astronauts, but current propulsion technology will have them floating in a spacecraft bound for the Red Planet for roughly six to nine months.