6 cylinder engines, no matter inline-6 or V6, are inherently smoother than 4-cylinder inline engines because all the first order and second order forces can be balanced. However, most small cars do ...

While most production engines turned to aluminum blocks not too long ago, aluminum cylinder heads have been the norm for many decades. Cylinder head is the hottest part of the engine since compression ...

If you can accept its ugly look, you will probably loves Ferrari 550 Maranello. With relatively light-weight controls, well road manner and comfortable cabin, it may be the most user-friendly super ...

In March 2005, the legendary John Z. DeLorean died at the age of 80. He will be remembered for two things: 1) He created the first modern muscle car, Pontiac GTO, when he was a senior executive at GM.

All cars need energy for propulsion. When they decelerate and stop, the energy is wasted in braking. Why not recapture the braking energy, store it and use it for acceleration later on? That is ...

When I first wrote this section in 1999, I was pessimistic about the future of automatic transmissions. Traditionally, automatics were slower responding, thirstier and heavier than manual ...

It would be good to have a linear, predictable steering response, but sometimes varying the steering ratio could enhance the driving experience. For example, when cruising on highway we want the ...

Manual transmission might be almost dead in the USA – only 4 percent of all new cars sold there are equipped with stick-shift – but in the rest of the world it is still the choice of the majority. For ...

In 1983, Toyota launched a pair of affordable coupes in Japan. Their official names were Corolla Levin and Sprinter Trueno. They were basically the same car except some cosmetic differences – the ...

There was a story behind the name "Dino" and the V6 engine. Alfredino Ferrari, the only son of Enzo Ferrari, suggested his father to develop a V6 racing engine for Formula 2 in the early 60s. Although ...

Japanese cars of the late 1980s and 1990s were renowned for high technology. The most notable of them was Mitsubishi Galant VR-4. Introduced in 1987, this car packed the most technologies this side of ...

Continuously Variable Transmission is getting more and more popular on small to mid-size cars, eating the market share of manual and low-end automatic transmissions. In 2015, the world produced 11.3 ...