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 ...

Mercedes will launch a new AMG designation in its redesigned CLS going on sale next year. The new Mercedes-AMG CLS53 is expected to be the first in a new line of AMG 53 models. It likely will be ...

As you might have heard from Matt Becker on the sidelines of the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, the chief engineer of Aston Martin is a big fan of the inline-six Mercedes-AMG shoehorns in the engine bay of ...

The straight-six engine is a smooth performer with a simple underlying design that's cemented in automotive history. These days, the straight-six is enjoying a recent surge in popularity as models ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The inline-six is enjoying a massive second act, and it's time we started paying attention. After all, inline-6 engines are much ...

Currently, if you buy a Mercedes-AMG model, you can get it in the 43, 45, 63 or 65 trims. But by as early as next year, Mercedes could be adding another engine to the AMG lineup. An inline-six one.

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 ...