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Last week, I went into a fair amount of detail about the ins and outs of replacing the cat-back portion of the exhaust in my 2008 Nissan Armada. Although the article was all flanges and nuts and bolts ...
Over the last many years, I have noticed the size of tires on cars the public is offered just keeps increasing. When I was a teen, the most common [wheel and] tire size was 14” with some 13” and 15” ...
Originally from La Mirada, California, and now living in Santa Ana, Bowden had a lot of good memories of this car even before it was handed down to him when he became a freshly-minted driver at 16. He ...
In the car world, we hear the word “preservation” quite a bit. For many, it means an uncompromising reverence for all-original classic automobiles that are just as they were when they were new, or ...
People often complain that those gorgeous and slippery concept cars that automakers create to tout their brand vision and design prowess get watered down to weak sauce by the time they reach ...
Students in the auto restoration program at McPherson College, which is expanding its curriculum to include mechanical engineering this fall. Courtesy McPherson College/Corey Nolen There are roughly ...
“It has long been the desire of Cadillac to build each year a few highly individualized cars which would possess supreme possibilities.” Now that customers will soon receive their cars, we decided to ...
For the eight of you who’ve been following my Brougham-A-Palooza indulgence these past few years, you know I am a major fan of what I term the “Nimitz class:” grand, giant American land yachts of the ...
Never say never—unless you’re talking about diesel as a mainstream fuel option in the U.S. We’re more likely to see wood-burning steam engines under the hood of future cars than we are ...
That’s the issue Chrysler had, because they had a very important product to launch, and they needed to make a big splash. Or, as it turned out, crash: Chrysler President Bob Lutz picked up Detroit ...
Tom Peters with the C6 Corvette shortly after its introduction in 2005. His vision greatly drove Corvette styling through the last three generations of America’s sports car. Courtesy Tom Peters Tom ...
“A sport bike should be controlled freely as to the rider’s wish.” That’s according to the father of the CBR900RR, former career Honda motorcycle engineer Tadao Baba. Baba-san, a real rider, was ...