A simple tweak that will stop your speedo under-achieving and ensuring you get to drive at the actual posted limit - accurately
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Read MoreKnock is literally a case of bad timing. A combustion event that can destroy your engine. Here’s how the propeller-heads keep that from happening
Read MoreVW, Ford, Hyundai, etc., are pumping themselves up, literally, with the hi-tech miracle of so-called overboost - but what exactly is it?
Read MoreIs all the clever tech in your shiny new car helping or hindering your attention to the core driving process? Do you even know what all the beeps and chimes mean?
Read More2019 lemon list - the essential guide to the cars and brands to avoid buying in 2019. Unless of course you’re a masochist, in which case, knock yourself out. Literally
Read MoreThis is a dead-easy mistake to make - especially if you are new to diesel. And it can cost you an arm and a leg. Worst-case scenario: you’ll be on the hook for $10,000+
Read MoreWarming up your car up before driving it: With a modern car is this a good idea or bad idea?
Read MoreCars have become astonishingly reliable and durable - as evidenced by the proliferation of 12-month service intervals. But these do have a dark side…
Read MoreThis is where price and perception strap on their Wonderbra to convince you that the product is far more desirable than it actually is. Is it costing you thousands?
Read MoreBanning diesel would be practically impossible here in ‘Straya. Politically impossible and logistically very difficult
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Wouldn’t it be impossibly excellent if you could jump start your car using the energy trapped in a notionally ‘flat’ battery? Now you can
Read MoreWhere does this seemingly simple modification sit, exactly, on the landscape of good and bad ideas?
Read MoreHow to crack the kooky code of crashes, plus the mad science of stamping sheetmetal, and the black art of becoming a Jedi master with nuts and bolts
Read MoreThe mad metallurgical voodoo of advanced high-strength steel. That’s right, brainiacs - strap on that propeller, and rack that slide rule: We’re goin’ in…
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Three cylinders: It almost doesn’t seem enough, and yet the BMW i8, and plenty of other cars, are motivated by three-cylinder power. What makes them tick?
Read MoreBoxer engines: The darling crankcase configuration of Porsche and Subaru - among others. What makes them tick, and what makes them different from inline and vee-style engines?
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A proper engine-tech brainiac calculates BMEP using a formula and established units. If you want to do this, be it entirely in your head…
Read MoreObviously they have a different numbers of cylinders, but have you ever stopped to think more deeply than that about the different operational characteristics of these configurations?
Read MoreCar dealers transact every day. You don’t. They’re match fit. You’re not. They’re ambush predators. You’re not. So … here’s how to win
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