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 ...

Before Ferrari builds a pickup, this must be the most surprising car in the industry. No, Aston did not design or build it, but to revamp a Toyota iQ as Aston Martin is already absurd enough. 2. Alfa ...

After multi-valve technology became standard in engine design, Variable Valve Timing becomes the next step to enhance engine output, no matter power or torque. As you know, valves activate the ...

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 ...

Ferrari's first generation mid-engined sports car was Dino 206GT / 246GT. It was an excellent driver's car, but too small and too slow to be called exotic. During the whole 1970s and 1980s, the world ...

British car maker Rover introduced its own VVT system called VVC (Variable Valve Control) on MGF in 1995. Many experts regarded it as the best VVT system at the time. The VVC can continuously vary the ...

When I started watching cars in the mid-1980s, most cars on the road were still fed by carburettors, including the wildest supercars like Lamborghini Countach QV and Aston Martin Zagato. Carburettors ...

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 ...

Whenever I mention Subaru, the images of the first generation Impreza WRX always flash in my mind. Undoubtedly, the first generation WRX was the symbol of Subaru as well as one of the iconic cars in ...

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, ...

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 ...

The advantage of turbocharging is obvious - instead of wasting thermal energy through exhaust, we can make use of such energy to increase engine power. By directing exhaust gas to drive a turbine, ...