The language of import performance can be strange. Sometimes it's a verbal stew of numbers and letters--RX-8, NSX, and MR2, for example--that seem randomly tossed together. At other times it adopts ...

Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (VTEC) has become Honda’s best-known technologies since Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (CVCC) was in the 1970s. Coincidentally, while CVCC was ...

What is VTEC? How does VTEC work? VTEC, or variable valve timing and lift electronic control is used to increase airflow within an engine cylinder at high rpm. Many companies have versions of their ...

Brian Cooley is CNET's Editor at large and has been with the brand since 1995. He currently focuses on electrification of vehicles but also follows the big trends in smart home, digital healthcare, 5G ...

A variety of two-stage, or discrete, variable valve lift (DVVL) and continuously variable valve lift (CVVL) systems have recently been incorporated in production vehicles. Several systems that have ...