Remember when Aston Martin used to offer a straight-six? The year was 1999 when the DB7 V12 Vantage doubled the number of cylinders, and just like that, the 3.2-liter supercharged engine was history.

Once upon a time, the straight six was a dominant engine design. Jaguar put them in its best cars, Jeep built its late 20th century reputation upon them, and almost every humdrum family car or pickup ...

The Lagonda Straight-6 is one of the most celebrated six-cylinder engines in the world. Used by Aston Martin for plenty of decades ever since the days of the DB2, the long-lived powerplant was dropped ...

Inline-six engines used to be a staple of mainstream motoring, from family sedans to workhorse pickups. Today, only a small circle of manufacturers still invests in this long, smooth layout, keeping ...

Yesterday at the Detroit Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz showed off two new straight-six-powered AMG models, the CLS53 and the E53. According to Ola Källenius, R&D chief at Mercedes, more straight-sixes are ...

At the Detroit Auto Show, Mercedes-AMG took the covers off of the new CLS53 and E53. The models are powered by a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six engine. The straight-six motor, according to a ...

Mercedes-Benz V-6 engines are not long for this world, but it's not all bad news. Ola Källenius, head of Mercedes research and development, did confirm the brand will phase out V-6 engine, but it ...

The Mercedes-AMG tie up has resulted in some insanely fast cars meant for the track and some meant for the street with many of the AMG models pulling duty both places. Automotive News reports that ...

Few engine configurations are as inherently smooth and well-balanced as the inline-six. Thanks to its symmetrical design and even firing order, the powerplant design delivers a level of refinement few ...

Mercedes’s in-house tuning division, AMG, will reportedly downsize the engine under the E63’s hood in order to make it more fuel efficient and, more importantly, more powerful. That will mean, sadly, ...