The street car market has come a long way since it went big-time in 1992, when HOT ROD launched its Top 10 Fastest Street Cars in America. In those 30-plus years there have been thousands of street ...
For the sake of argument, let's say you're building a 700-hp street car. What would the perfect fuel system be if you could have anything you wanted? At the top of our wish list would be easy to ...
Top Fuel dragsters are without argument the fastest accelerating manned vehicles on Earth, boasting engines that are absolute marvels of engineering. Each V8 displaces 500 cubic inches, about the same ...
Like any self-respecting petrolhead, I’m captivated by all things internal combustion. I’ve been to racetracks all over the world to see the best riders and drivers on two and four wheels, ...
Engineers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have proposed reshaping heavy vehicles such as semi-trucks to be more aerodynamic. This new continuous design could significantly reduce ...
Not all that familiar with the Plymouth Savoy? That’s ok; it was always a bit of an odd thing, starting with the fact that Plymouth managed to build not one or two, but four different generations in ...
In nature, the most aerodynamic shape is that of a drop of water, which has a coefficient of drag (Cd) of 0.05. Unfortunately, this is not a practical shape for a vehicle. An object's Cd, or how much ...