We’ve been burning gasoline for well over a hundred years now, but some misconceptions about fuel—especially when it comes to octane—are so ingrained in the popular consciousness that even those of us ...

EVEN at the cheapest petrol station in your correspondent's neighborhood, filling up the family kidmobile with premium (91 octane) fuel now costs over $70. As the meter clocks up dizzying dollar ...

You have a choice when you pull up to the pump. Most gas stations have three choices for fuel for your vehicle, based mostly on octane ratings. Which one is the best for your vehicle? A lot of that ...

You pull up to the pump and you are presented with a few choices, and we're not talking about different fuel types here. We're talking, of course, about octane ratings. Those are large figures at the ...

Some new cars claim to require premium fuel, others recommend it and most new vehicles on the road today are perfectly happy with regular fuel with nary a hiccup. Simultaneously, we're bombarded by ...

Aside from the price, have you ever driven into the petrol station and wondered what the 91, 95 and 98 (often called Premium ...

Ethanol blending has fundamentally changed India’s petrol landscape. On the downside, ethanol has about 30 percent less energy per litre than petrol. This reduces fuel efficiency by 5–10 percent in ...

With a price difference of 24.4 cents between regular and premium gasoline on national average, many people are left wondering if they can save at the pump by filling up their gas tank with ...

While our automobiles have experienced remarkable changes over the past several decades, the fuels we put in them have not. Specifically, the octane rating of regular gasoline today is the same as it ...

The fuel and engine community has been using Cooperative Fuel Research (CFR) engines for nearly a century to quantify a fuel’s “knocking” propensity, or the likelihood that it will autoignite in the ...

There are two major elements that bring the Corvette mystique to life. First is power. Power animates the drivetrain and gets your Corvette moving so you can enjoy the thrust and handling enhancements ...