Apr 04
Mercedes has been dominating F1 this season, and a big technical secret why has just come out — they split their turbo in half.
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Mar 21
Formula One is the most advanced racing series in the world, which means the cars themselves are basically highly complex hybrid hi-tech pods with wheels. How do you pilot a machine like that? With all these buttons.
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Mar 06
Goodyear’s unnamed concept builds on a standard SUV tire with a large central groove to improve rolling resistance by having a reduced contact patch with the road. But as you can see from the tread, this is strictly a concept with no intention of being put into production. Yet.
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Mar 06
Gasoline engines have gotten incredibly good at squeezing all the energy they can out of gas. The problem is that "incredibly good" still means about 37% efficiency. If my high school transcript is any measure, 37% still kind of sucks. The rest of that energy is lost as heat, but there are ways to reclaim it. Ask Porsche.
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Mar 05
EDAG is a German design and engineering firm that has been working with most car manufacturers for the past four decades and also built a Pontiac Solstice shooting brake because wagons rock. Their latest concept is a 3D-printed composite passenger cell that was inspired by turtles and goes beyond today’s possibilities.
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Feb 26
As we drive down the road, Christian von Koenigsegg laughs. "A GM engineer said we’d never have an engine without a camshaft a few years ago. We were driving in a car without a camshaft at the time, so he must have been wrong." Welcome to the future.
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Feb 11
Like many automotive-news outlets, our reporting of the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupé
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Feb 10
There’s been a lot of hype and panic
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Jan 10
Good news, ass-havers! The answer is yes. Even better news is that the vast majority of what’s likely to be expelled from your butt has potential to run a car, which is likely the best use for anything that comes out of any butt anywhere. So let’s see how this ass-power works.
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Dec 30
Thanks to these ten new technologies (and ignoring all of your privacy complaints), the authorities can practically have you in handcuffs before you realize you even broke the law.
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