To repeat an icon is not easy. To reinvent an icon is even harder. Renault succeeds in doing so. Few small cars have so much visual appeal. The reborn Mini has it, so is Fiat 500. They are successful ...

Casper is designed to Korea's light car category, something like Japan's Kei-cars. It is not exactly a new car. Back in 2021, Hyundai introduced the Casper as its domestic market city car. It fits ...

No matter outside or inside, the 4 looks fantastic... Previously a performance sub-brand of Volvo, Polestar was spun off to become a premium EV brand, initially owned half-half by Volvo and its parent ...

All cars need energy for propulsion. When they decelerate and stop, the energy is wasted in braking. Why not recapture the braking energy, store it and use it for acceleration later on? That is ...

Launched together with the mighty Porsche 959 supercar in 1987, Porsche-Steuer Kupplung (PSK) was probably the world's first electronic-controlled 4WD system. Incredibly, even after 30 years, it is ...

As many people know, mechanical superchargers are good for low-end output but short of high-end efficiency, while exhaust turbochargers work strongly at high rev but reluctantly at low rev. For ...

The first generation SH-AWD used in the 2005 Honda Legend (Acura RL) was a very clever invention. Not only its working principle is unique in the industry but it is highly capable to transform the ...

Combining cam-changing VVT and cam-phasing VVT may satisfy the requirement of both top-end power and flexibility throughout the whole rev range, though it is inevitably more complex. At the time of ...

Continuously Variable Transmission is getting more and more popular on small to mid-size cars, eating the market share of manual and low-end automatic transmissions. In 2015, the world produced 11.3 ...