The 1957 Corvette did something quietly radical: it took fuel injection out of the lab and the racetrack and put it on a ...

Cutaway of Chev engine showing fuel injection components. Air meter, right, picks up vacuum signals in venturi and transmits them to diaphragms in fuel meter on right. With all the noise currently ...

Electronic fuel injection is older than you think, the earliest example being the failed Bendix Electrojector system from 1957. Bosch bought the rights to the Eletrojector system and developed it into ...

When most of our Mopars were built, a carburetor adorned the intake manifold, handling the mixing of fuel and air and keeping the proper ratio of each under most driving conditions. If your car was an ...

Most new petrol cars you see today are equipped with fuel injection systems or injector motors. These have almost wholly supplanted older carburetor motors. They are more reliable, effective, and ...

It promised better power, reliability, and fuel economy. Sadly, though, virtually none of those promises were delivered.

Jack Roush once was the most hands-on team owner in the NASCAR garage. It wouldn't be odd to walk into the garage on a race weekend and see Roush under the hood, fiddling with a carburetor. But with ...

However, not all innovations are equal and nor do they follow a constant upward trend. Instead, their evolution takes the form of an S-shaped curve that reflects their typical lifecycle from early ...