If You Expect Great Performance, Protect Your Power Steering
Driving enthusiasts should keep a strict eye on their power steering if they want to continue enjoying their driving adventures. To keep power steering working properly, you and your mechanic should partner to monitor the situation. It’s possible that with timely maintenance, your power steering will last longer than your engine. Keep the Fluids Flowing…
29 June – 5 July: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 160 years ago this week, Charles Goodyear (59), American inventor of vulcanised rubber, died a pauper [1 July 1860]. Goodyear began his career as a partner in his father’s hardware business, which went bankrupt in 1830. He then became interested in discovering…
20-26 April: Motoring Milestones
Discover the most momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ………….. 120 years ago this week, Carlo Biscaretti drove a Phenix to victory in the first Italian hillclimb, the 5 km Madonna Del Pilone-Pino Toerinese [21 April 1900]…….. The Turin-Pinerolo-Saluzzo-Cuneo-Turin road race was won by L Gastè driving a Perfecta 6 hp…
10-16 February: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……… 120 years ago this week, J.W. Packard received his first automotive patent a year after forming his company with partner George Weiss. Packard became interested in building cars after purchasing a Winton horseless carriage [12 February 1900]. The Winton proved unreliable and…
Common Luxury Cars in America
Luxury cars are vehicles that offer incredible features in terms of performance, comfort, visual appeal, and body quality. However, all of these features come at a price. This is to mean that luxury cars are expensive to purchase, maintain, and repair. Since time immemorial, America has had the largest market for luxurious vehicles. The ever-growing…
23-29 September: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 220 years ago this week, Philippe Lebon d’Humbersin was issued with a French patent for his two-stroke internal combustion coal-gas motor featuring many principles of the modern two-stroke engine [28 September 1799]………. 90 years ago this week, Maserati’s new V4, a 16-cylinder…
26 August -1 September: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history …….. 160 years ago today, Edwin Drake struck oil at a depth of 69 feet near Titusville, Pennsylvania, the world’s first successful oil well [27 August 1859]. This source of crude oil opened up a new inexpensive source of power and quickly replaced…
Driverless Cars: When can we expect them and what’s the big deal
Self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles are vehicles that use an array of sensors (radar, lidar, sonar, GPS, odometry, etc.) to drive with little or no human input. In other words, a car with nobody behind the wheel. And while this may have been the stuff of ghost stories, urban myths and sci-fi back in the…
12-18 February: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that have taken place this week in history ……. 120 Years ago this week, the first car crash resulting in a fatality happened when the steering gear failed on Henry Linfield’s electric car, and he crashed at the bottom of a hill at Purley Corner, Surrey, England [12 February 1898].…
1-7 January: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in history ……. 100 years ago this week, the first Chevrolet trucks went on sale (cover image) [7 January 1918]. Chevy introduced two four-cylinder trucks for the 1918 model year , both cowl chassis designs that were only outfitted with sheet metal on the front.…