The Saab Variable Compression (SVC) engine promised both fuel savings and performance, something conventional engines couldn't balance. On paper, the 1.6-liter five-cylinder prototype delivered up to ...

Saab Automobile’s vice president – powertrain, Kjell Bergström, is to head up technical development in a new GM-Fiat powertrain joint venture company. Bergström takes up his new position in Turin, ...

Harry Ricardo built the first known variable compression ratio engine as a test engine in the 1920s to study knock in aircraft engines. Variable compression ratio was achieved by raising or lowering ...