Turbochargers are wonderful things, taking waste energy and using it to help an engine to produce more power. The variable-geometry turbocharger is an advanced version of this technology, which brings ...

Turbochargers are known for making your car faster and more fuel efficient in exchange for a constant supply of clean oil to lubricate its parts-- this is how it's always been. Or has it? Oil-less ...

Electric power isn't just for driving the wheels of a car. Audi uses electric turbochargers to defeat dreaded turbo lag and make engines more responsive. Here's how it works. Conventional ...

Over the past 25 years, turbochargers have gone from a relative rarity to a fixture of the new-car buying experience. Where in 2000 only 1% of new cars had the technology, according to the ...

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It used to be that turbochargers were mostly used on high-performance sports cars. They still give go-fast cars an extra boost of power, but increasingly, automakers use them on smaller engines to ...

Find out about the multi-million-dollar technology that runs today's Formula One cars. It’s generally understood that the more cylinders you have in your engine, the faster your car will be. However, ...

The turbocharger has been around in rallying for a couple of decades now, and years spent honing the art of recycling air back into the engine has led to today's World Rally Cars being some very ...