New V12 model returns to its roots as a grand tourer like 550 Maranello... In 1996, Luca Montezemolo revived Ferrari’s traditional front-engined V12 GT, a format preferred by Enzo Ferrari, with 550 ...

Electric muscle car both surprises and disappoints... If muscle cars are nonsense, an electric muscle car sounds even more ridiculous. Somehow, I do love the concept of Dodge Charger Daytona very much ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

If Volvo 240 was a brick, then the 760/740 series must be a tank. Introduced in 1982, this new model became the trademark of Volvo in the 1980s thanks to its angular ...

One of the stars of the 1990s. Many motoring magazines declared it as the greatest front-wheel drive machine ever made. The Integra Type R was built on a solid basis - the third generation (codenamed ...

In March 2005, the legendary John Z. DeLorean died at the age of 80. He will be remembered for two things: 1) He created the first modern muscle car, Pontiac GTO, when he was a senior executive at GM.

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 ...

Combining cam-changing VVT and cam-phasing VVT may satisfy the requirement of both top-end power and flexibility throughout the whole rev range, though it is inevitably more complex. At the time of ...