Modern automobiles are equipped with a myriad of early warning signs designed to alert drivers of potential issues. Despite the fact that said warnings are meant to alert drivers to problems before ...

How do manual transmissions work? We'll learn how clutches work, how gears work, and how shifting works with a detailed ...

The automatic transmission has been a given option through most our time behind the wheel, but that wasn’t always the case. In the early ’30s there was no such animal. A simple example of gear ...

One of the most fulfilling parts of driving a car is shifting gears. Enthusiasts like us yearn for open, twisty roads, going through the gears and surfing a wave of torque. Yet, most of us are stuck ...

Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...

While Jaguar Land Rover still has yet to confirm power or fuel economy ratings for its new Ingenium four-cylinder turbo engines, the company did let slip one key bit of news. The engines will be able ...

There's a fairly common phrase in motorsports, certainly in drag racing: "There's no replacement for displacement." Let's say you wanted to take it to the extreme. What if boring and stroking your ...

That subtle vibration during acceleration isn’t normal-it’s your engine mount dying a slow death beneath your hood. You dismiss it as road noise or chalk it up to your car’s age, but those failing ...

The two main considerations for choosing a manual transmission should be fitment and whether the features of the transmission match the goals for your project. Fitment relates to how much work it will ...

Kit car builders and street rod enthusiasts have traditionally had their share of issues mating the transmission to the engine in a project car; either one or the other would install smoothly, but ...

Because we use them every day, the operation of a car seems simple, but a car is a very complex machine. One of the most complex systems in the typical vehicle is the automatic transmission. This ...