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 ...

Manual transmission might be almost dead in the USA – only 4 percent of all new cars sold there are equipped with stick-shift – but in the rest of the world it is still the choice of the majority. For ...

Japanese cars of the late 1980s and 1990s were renowned for high technology. The most notable of them was Mitsubishi Galant VR-4. Introduced in 1987, this car packed the most technologies this side of ...

First introduced by Mercedes 300SL in 1954, tuned intake manifold is not exactly a new technology. It is discussed here just because its principle is useful to our further study of variable intake ...

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 ...

In pre-war era, the world of sports cars was dominated by 3 companies: Alfa Romeo of Italy, Bugatti of France and Bentley of Great Britain. Each of them represented different philosophies: Alfa Romeo ...

A refined engine should be smooth running, free of vibration and quiet. These qualities also help the engine to spin freer at high rpm, lifting red line hence power output. Engine smoothness depends ...

Steering is very important to a car because it is the interface that the driver touches most. What makes a car's steering better than another? It is usually judged by several factors: directness, ...

6 cylinder engines, no matter inline-6 or V6, are inherently smoother than 4-cylinder inline engines because all the first order and second order forces can be balanced. However, most small cars do ...