Ferrari has filed a patent for an engine with pill-shaped pistons, a radical departure from traditional circular piston designs. While Honda famously experimented with oval pistons in the late 1970s ...

A circle, by definition, is a two-dimensional shape where every point is equidistant from a single center point. It's neat, it's elegant, and it also happens to be the universal answer to "what shape ...

Using pill-shaped pistons and a novel connecting-rod design, Ferrari has a way of making its V-12s shorter. Ferrari is not ...