Ferrari is exploring a groundbreaking approach to the internal combustion engine, as revealed by a recent European patent filing. Departing from the industry-standard round pistons, this new design ...

Ferrari has signaled a willingness to challenge one of the most fundamental assumptions in engine design by filing a European patent for oval-shaped pistons, a move that could reshape how future ...

Ferrari has filed a patent for an engine with pill-shaped pistons, a radical departure from traditional circular piston designs. While Honda famously experimented with oval pistons in the late 1970s ...

While there have been many unusual engine designs over the years, there haven't been many advancements involving the inner workings of the piston engine, except for higher-quality components, since ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

Our recent article about Ferrari’s pill-shaped piston patent had a lot of readers commenting that Honda did it decades ago ...

Ferrari has filed a patent application for a hydrogen-powered internal-combustion engine, hinting that the automaker is considering this as a way to keep combustion engines alive in a future with ...