Following oil and tires, brakes are one of the most important wear items on a car. If you’re not tracking your ride, you won’t have to swap out your brakes often, but knowing how is a valuable skill that any enthusiast should have. This simple explainer video is here to show us exactly what it […]
Colin Furze’s Honda motorcycle-powered 1960s dodgem three-wheeler set the Guinness World Record for “the world’s fastest bumper car.” Needless to say, in order to reach triple digit speeds, the British genius/madman had to make certain modifications to the former amusement park ride. Bumper cars are built like a Ford Panther: they use a simple body-on-frame […]
Bisi Ezerioha, the founder of Bisimoto, likes to push the limits of front-wheel-drive cars. Previously, he built a 708-horsepower Hyundai Sonata for SEMA, and two years before that, he built a 600-horsepower Elantra GT. But his most famous front-wheel-drive creation is his 1000-horsepower Honda Odyssey, which is headed to auction later this month. In case […]
You’d hardly know it as little as automakers talk about it, but you don’t need to buy a car with an electrical plug or one that runs on home-brewed bio-diesel to drastically cut emissions. You can buy a normal car with a normal internal-combustion engine that still generates less pollution than mowing your lawn. It’s […]
Like IPAs and avocados, it’s an acquired taste that just makes sense to adopt. Because the CVT is wonderful. Yes, it’s true. I — car geek for nigh upon 30 years, single man who chooses to ogle a Ferrari smoothing past rather than a pretty woman, typically stressed New Yorker who imagines shifting a notchy […]
Every Formula 1 driver had to start somewhere, and racing karts at a very young age is how most champions are cultivated. This is true for pretty much every modern F1 driver in the field today, and past winners are no different. That’s why five McLaren drivers, spanning three generations, have been brought together in […]
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