Technologies
11 articles & 78 illustrations
One of the most unnerving things that can happen in motoring is that you brake and one or more of...
Mention plastic cars, and most people think of the leaky, creaky and crazed bodywork so common on...
You do not always need to replace a component that is worn, damaged or broken. There is an incre...
This article is from the mid-1980s. It is out-of-date but still interesting. Twenty-five years ag...
Most people have some idea of what an engine's power is, but are hazy about exactly what the torq...
The fuel used in a modern car, whether petrol, diesel or even LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas), has to ...
Almost all car engines work on the four-stroke cycle, so called because it takes four strokes of ...
One of the problems with conventional car engine designs is that the pistons move in a straight l...
In an ideal, 100 per cent efficient internal combustion engine, the fuel would burn to give just ...
As the cost of petrol rises, car manufacturers are taking more and more care in designing their c...
When a car manufacturer decides to produce a new model, the styling, or design, of the new car i...