Other manufacturers caught on and it didn’t take too long for a plethora of companies to add the turbo moniker to any vehicle that was supposed to be slightly sporty. Without the turbocharger it’s ...

The best things in life come in pairs - and so does turbocharging. Two decades after the first turbocharged car, the Oldsmobile Jetfire, Maserati debuted an engine with two turbochargers, which gave ...

Justin Pritchard is a seasoned Sudbury, Ontario-based automotive journalist, producer, and technical writer. With a passion for cars and a talent for storytelling, he's established himself as a ...

I have a 2013 Nissan Qashqai 1.6 petrol. I am looking to change it, but the newer ones all seem to have smaller engines with boosters. Does that mean that the engine will work that much harder and so ...

Any engine that features a pair of turbochargers, such as the VR38DETT found in the Nissan GT-R, is a 'twin-turbo' engine. Using two turbochargers, instead of one, grants several potential benefits - ...

The downsizing of engines by carmakers is a strategy that's now all too familiar. Over the past decades, many automakers have had to shrink their engine sizes as part of efforts to comply with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The return of turbocharged engines to Formula One this season comes a neat quarter-century after their last ...

Lovely linear delivery, nice torque-to-grip ratio, doesn’t lessen the Seven’s magic Not the most sonorous of engine notes, requires a power bulge in the Seven’s bonnet This car is powered by the ...

Michal studies Automotive Journalism at Coventry University in the UK, and has been writing for CarBuzz since March 2025. He was nominated for student culture piece of the year recently and has been ...