The car named for the Bonneville Salt Flats will return there this month in an attempt to break the land speed record. Pontiac Div. is taking a modified version of its Bonneville sedan to the Salt Flats (Aug. 12-18) for a go at the 209.21-mphStock...
Average consumers would demand that a battery-powered electric vehicle cost about $28,000 less than a comparable internal-combustion vehicle before they would agree to own and drive the EV.That's according to a study by Professor Kenneth Train of...
There's something unnerving about talking cars. When a machine tells you something you haven't figured out on your own, another nail gets driven into the coffin of human fallibility.Does your car really need to flaunt its intellect by declaring...
DETROIT - Probably the most intriguing display at the recent Global Powertrain Congress 2000 here is a new-century spin on an industrial-revolution antique: the steam engine.Once or twice every decade, somebody revives the prospect of the steam...
We all love when a totally new engine breaks onto the annual Ward's Ten Best Engines list, because it becomes an immediate target. The new engine beats plenty of excellent competition, not to mention displacing an engine that previously won a spot...
AKRON, OH - Not that there was anything wrong with the current-generation (C5) Corvette.Yet for 2001, here we go again, because the engineers, Chevrolet and GM, true to the Corvette's legacy, are pushing the envelope with even more performance and...
Apparently, father Ford knows best when it comes to Mustang performance, because the best efforts of any aftermarket tuner would not equal the FR500. The "homegrown" Ford Racing Performance FR500 is what the mass-produced Mustang was meant to be ...
It's really getting down to the detail work when the guys over in Engine Development get the call saying, "We've discovered that the Lincoln LS intender wants a throatier exhaust tone. Make it happen."An oversimplification, maybe, but that's...
These are not the typical high school dream cars scribbled in the back of a notebook. Future designers, engineers, marketers and executives put together a full product development plan for DaimlerChrysler's Build Your Own Dreamcar Competition. The...
For those old enough to recall the earliest Volkswagens, the memory is inexorably intertwined with the sound of those Beetles sputtering around with their tiny little engines. Since that time, VWs and small engines have gone hand-in-hand.No longer...