Image it. You are slicing down the freeway on an epic street journey. Journey awaits, maybe within the mountains or a seaside vista. Having a cool car makes the street journey that a lot better, and it is arduous to think about driving something cooler than … an enormous peanut. Yearly, Planters hires a staff …
Lego fanatics, your C8 Corvette Stingray has arrived. The brick-building firm has launched its first interpretation of the mid-engine American sports activities automotive, full with a “working” drivetrain and a steerable entrance axle. This package is labeled as a Technic construct, however with a worth of $59.99, it isn’t one of many high-end, complicated designs …
Toyota’s 2JZ engine is an unbelievable feat of engineering. Bought in a slew of automobiles within the Nineties and Aughts—together with the legendary Mk. 4 Supra—it is gained a repute of being essentially the most sturdy inner combustion engine ever constructed. The venerable straight-six is able to holding enormous energy numbers with the suitable mods, …
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a superb device, permitting aerodynamicists a option to visualize and optimize airflow in a method inconceivable in the true world. It can be used for sillier goals. Like evaluating the aerodynamics of a 40-series Toyota Land Cruiser to a loaf of bread. We have all the time joked about this …
Once I first drove the Aston Martin Vantage in Spain, it was fairly beautiful. By a cloud of jet lag and unfamiliarity with Spanish highway tradition, it was evident then that the up to date child Aston had one thing particular going for it. That one thing turned extraordinarily clear on my residence roads throughout …
Behold the Chevrolet Chevette. This is not simply any Chevette, both. It is a 1987 mannequin, the final yr for what’s arguably one of many worst financial system automobiles ever constructed. It will get higher, as a result of this one solely has 47 miles on the odometer. Documentation within the automotive reveals it had …
One more main automaker has been fined for dishonest on diesel emissions. Hino Motors, an organization inside Toyota Group, agreed to a settlement totaling $1.6 billion ensuing from “false and fraudulent CO2 emissions check information” submitted to the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA). The superb features a $236.5 million civil penalty to California, …