Being unable to put fuel into an almost-empty car is a peculiarly annoying problem. There is diesel in the pump, space in the tank and apparently no reason the two should have trouble meeting. Yet the
The Ford Nucleon looks as though someone moved the passengers forward to make room for a very important piece of luggage. Its cabin sits near the nose, leaving an enormous rear section between the fin
GM is doing something you don't see every day: offering two naturally aspirated 6.6-liter V8 engines in its truck lineup. Both have the same displacement and bore-and-stroke dimensions, but they u
Among the cars in Citroën’s heritage collection sits something that makes even the company’s stranger experiments look quite sensible: a helicopter. Two seats, a bubble-like cabin and
Most cars ask the driver to remember which side the fuel door is on. An older Jaguar XJ6 offers a more entertaining problem: there is a filler cap on each side, and both of them lead somewhere. The
Before tanks had tracks, someone had to imagine that an engine, armor and heavy weapons might belong on the same vehicle. Frederick Richard Simms did more than imagine it. At the end of the 19th ce
Long before carmakers filled dashboards with screens, an important piece of engine information was displayed outside the windshield. Early automobiles often carried their radiator filler caps at
GM is giving its full-size pickups some new muscle for 2027. The Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 are getting two new small-block V8s, and both engines bring more power and torque than the
Porsche’s electric Boxster is still waiting in the wings, but there’s already a brand-new electric Porsche sports car you can buy for less than $100,000. There’s just one small probl
The usual explanation sounds perfectly logical. When a car slows down, its weight moves toward the front. The front tires carry more load, so the front brakes provide more of the stopping force. That