Since the beginning of time, automakers and, by proxy, car enthusiasts, have been sticking big engines in cars originally intended for less power. The quest for more muscle is never-ending, and ...

People often complain that those gorgeous and slippery concept cars that automakers create to tout their brand vision and design prowess get watered down to weak sauce by the time they reach ...

You might say the old British idiom “horses for courses” was coined to illustrate the cars of Kobus Reyneke. Quite simply, it means that different people, or in this case, machines, are best suited to ...

For most of automotive history, sports car drivers who opted for drop-tops had to accept a degree of compromise: The credit of open-air exhilaration was offset by a debit to agility and outright ...

In the car world, we hear the word “preservation” quite a bit. For many, it means an uncompromising reverence for all-original classic automobiles that are just as they were when they were new, or ...

Last week, I went into a fair amount of detail about the ins and outs of replacing the cat-back portion of the exhaust in my 2008 Nissan Armada. Although the article was all flanges and nuts and bolts ...

As I approached birthday number 70, the thought entered my mind that I needed one more hot rod before I reached the other end. During my high school and early college years, life was all about hot ...

Over the last many years, I have noticed the size of tires on cars the public is offered just keeps increasing. When I was a teen, the most common [wheel and] tire size was 14” with some 13” and 15” ...

Toyota released the original RAV4 in 1994, and the model has gradually evolved from a niche off-roader offered with two doors and a removable hardtop to a mainstream SUV that stands out as one of the ...

“It has long been the desire of Cadillac to build each year a few highly individualized cars which would possess supreme possibilities.” Now that customers will soon receive their cars, we decided to ...

Plenty of people ascribe plenty of virtues and ideals to the word “motorsport,” but really it boils down to competitive activities powered by engines. Motors make the sport. And the many unique ...

Students in the auto restoration program at McPherson College, which is expanding its curriculum to include mechanical engineering this fall. Courtesy McPherson College/Corey Nolen There are roughly ...