If you've heard "VTEC kicked in, yo" - whether in seriousness or as a meme - you'll want to know about this brilliant ...

July 15, 2005 Honda will introduce a new Honda Hybrid System in the 2006 Civic Hybrid that features a 3-stage i-VTEC engine that employs Honda’s “intelligent” VTEC (Variable Valve Timing and Lift ...

VTEC is an acronym for a variable valve-timing system used on Honda and Acura models since 1989. The full name is variable valve timing and lift electronic control, and the first U.S. model with VTEC ...

Honda did not invent variable valve timing or variable valve lift. In fact, Cadillac had a driver-operated variable valve timing system in production in 1903, three years before Soichiro Honda was ...

Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features ...

The classic problem facing high-performance street cars has always been how to maximize performance without sacrificing driveability. Short of power-adders like turbos or nitrous oxide, significant ...

Honda expects its new Advanced VTEC system to hit production vehicles in 2009First it was VTEC. Then it was i-VTEC. Now there's Advanced VTEC, Honda's latest engine development. Promising to improve ...

In last month's "Tech Scene," we compared the differences between Toyota's VVTL-i (Variable Valve Timing and Lift-intelligence) and Honda's VTEC (Variable Valve Timing and lift Electronic Control).

Honda has never built a V8 engine for one of its road cars but what it has just done is create a V8 that incorporates VTEC for the boating industry. This engine has been brought to life by Honda ...

At the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, Honda announced a new series of engines and other drivetrain technology, giving this effort the moniker Earth Dreams Technology. Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes ...