Some of you are probably wondering how do Formula One cars, which reach speeds in excess of 200 mph (321 km/h), manage to brake so effectively at the end of a long straight. The high temperatures ...

We tend to put the cart before the horse in our car building efforts. There's always a big quest for power, yet with no real idea on how to manage it. You can have all the power in world, but if you ...

Back in the early days of NASCAR, cars were basically street-legal vehicles that were driven to the track, raced and then driven back home again. All of the components were virtually "street" stock.

Expensive repairs? Find a warranty to cover future costs. Are your brakes sticking, pulling your vehicle to one side or just not stopping your car like they used to? All three are signs that you may ...

Wide-open acceleration might fun, but slowing down that speeding hunk of metal is much more important. Any driver's safety depends on consistent, reliable deceleration, or in other words, working ...

Many of the larger vehicles on our roads have one intriguing thing in common: They can make sudden, loud, gas-escaping hissing noises. These noises, admittedly, have made this writer jump -- on more ...

Quickly fading are the days when we were free to dream of cranking a lever connected to cables that would squeeze the brakes and break traction, as more and more modern cars replace cabled emergency ...

Even if you are not that passionate about cars, but you drive regularly, you still need to know some basics about brakes. Yes, you press that pedal next to the accelerator, but what exactly happens ...

With all the hoopla going on about the GM Brake Repair Litigation Settlement (on 1988 – 1993 Chevy Lumina, Buick Regal, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, and Pontiac Grand Prix automobiles), I thought I’d ...