When you depend on fierce reliability from your truck every day, the one thing you don’t need is engine and driveline failure at an inopportune moment. What’s more, you don’t want a lot of downtime ...

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Ever wonder how your transmission knows to shift gears? Why is it that when you stop, the engine doesn't die? We're here to show you how cars work. We recently looked at manual transmissions. This ...

The driveline might be one of the most overlooked series of components on fire apparatus, yet it’s one of the most important. Your vehicle has to get members to the scene efficiently, it must function ...

If you made a list of the most outstanding cars of 2004, ThunderRoad would be on it somewhere. This sweet little '29 pickup, built by POSIES Rods and Customs and featured on the December '04 cover of ...

Volvo Trucks North America on Feb. 6 outlined a range of mechanical and technological enhancements to both its proprietary D13 engine and I-Shift automated transmission that helped the OEM achieve ...

The Internet will tell you that 100 extra horsepower by means of a 100-pound weight penalty is an acceptable trade-off. The Internet will tell you that it isn’t. The Internet will also tell you how to ...

A car rebuild expert bought a Chevrolet Camaro sight unseen, rated 1.3 out of 5. The listing had so many red flags that he should have just looked at it from miles away and just forget about it. In ...

We’ve heard rumors that dual clutch transmissions are finally going to make their way into domestic muscle cars like the Mustang and Corvette, and an employee newsletter from a supplier may confirm ...