For many Corvette enthusiasts, this writer included, modifying a Corvette is a sensitive task. After all, you’re “messing with” designs and concepts from iconic designers and engineers like Harley ...
Unless you can shift like Ronnie Sox, automatic transmissions are simply more consistent when racing on the dragstrip. When it comes to street driving, however, most will agree that there's no better ...
When it comes to hot cars, sounds play a big role. Take the nitro burners, for instance; without the sounds they make, they may as well be just another alcohol dragster. Or where would the Pro/Street ...
A few months back, I wrote about how I dug into BMW’s parts catalog to see what kind of premium upgrades I could affix to my BMW 128i’s interior. What I came up with was a neat Alcantara center trim ...
Not only is the manual transmission creeping closer to extinction by the day, the actual art of shift lever design is all but lost as well. The shift lever is one of the driver’s main points of ...
Horse Sense:If a survey was taken among all of our associates and colleagues in the Mustang media, many of whom share same passion for late-model Ponies that we have, poll results would probably show ...
Here’s a silly hack for you guys. Turn your head (or anything else really) into a stick shift handle! Anyway, once you’ve gotten your 3D scan turned into a .STL file, it just needs to be imported into ...
The shifter handle on the transmission of Jimmie Johnson's car broke during Sunday's race at Michigan, so he and his team had to take drastic measures. When Johnson pitted under green the team handed ...
Ford’s bite-sized Maverick pickup truck has been an absolute smash hit since it launched. Owners and journalists alike seem to love the unibody truck for its honest, no-nonsense approach to trucking.
FOR the earliest automobiles crawling along horse-cart roads, a single fixed ratio of engine r.p.m. to vehicle speed was entirely adequate. But before long it became clear that building vehicles ...