The Chrysler Group has Ford Motor Co. and, to a lesser extent, General Motors Corp. clearly in its sights with the creation of a performance-tuning specialty vehicle group. Ford has its long-standing Specialty Vehicle Engineering group, and GM...
DETROIT Ford Motor Co. hopes silence is indeed golden, having pulled out all the stops to reduce NVH in its refreshed '03 Expedition. Along with more packaging refinement and a couple of genuine surprise-and-delight features the all-new Expedition...
PHOENIX Volkswagen AG's New Beetle has been traversing North American roads since the spring of 1998 and has been dubbed everything from to Some would even call it a car, maybe because 60% of Beetle buyers are female. The folks at VW, however...
DETROIT Ford Motor Co.'s 350-hp Power Stroke Super-600 concept turbodiesel V-8, which bowed in a Tonka-inspired show truck at the North American International Auto Show here, is by 2004 in a heavy-duty application, the automaker's chief technical...
Being No.1 in Japan's import car market year after year is not limiting Volkswagen AG's ambitions. Next step up is to become a major brand player in the world's second-largest car market. Our goal is not to challenge Honda or Nissan but to become...
Brian Corbett carps that a lot of his picks for this year's 10-Best didn't make the cut, but in fact that's all part of our judging process. Nobody gets all of his or her personal favorites on the list. At least three of mine proven winners didn't...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a contract for development of a 0.5-hp all-ceramic engine to Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR), Tuscon, AZ, and Regi U.S., Columbus, IN. The small engine, for use in an unmanned aerial vehicle, will employ Regi's Rand Cam...
Two of the top 10 engines do what they do so well with a mere four cylinders not a bad representation. But one easily can argue that eking award-worthy power out of a 4-banger is a far greater achievement than wowing the masses with a smooth six...
My fellow judges consider me public enemy No.1 because I have this thing about small-displacement engines. It's no fetish just a deep-seated respect for a powerplant that does its job efficiently, quietly and with enough gusto to fool me into...