“It’s hard being a single dad — especially when your son is a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle,” says the back cover to “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive,” a new novel by Christopher Boucher (Melville House). However curious the book’s premise, it works a pretty well-plowed surrealist furrow, hailing back to Kafka and Gogol by way of [...]
Detroit Enlarge This Image VALVETRAIN The sliding action of a camshaft’s lobe over a valve lifter is a source of friction. Increasingly, engines are designed with rollers at the contact points to let the parts work with less resistance. WITH more than three decades of intensive engineering efforts devoted to the cause, automakers have depleted [...]
WITHIN weeks of when Nissan first began delivering the Leaf to buyers last December, do-it-yourselfers were looking for ways to make the newelectric car — an engineering marvel from one of the world’s leading automakers — even better. Among those who applied their 21st-century engineering skills to tinkering pursuits that date to the dawn of [...]
TESTED 2012 Scion iQ WHAT IS IT? Smaller than a mere small car, the iQ is a “premium micro-subcompact” that almost seats four in near comfort. HOW MUCH? There’s only one model, priced at $15,995. Though there are no factory options, Scion is supporting the iQ with a large catalog of dealer-installed equipment. WHAT MAKES IT [...]
There are a lot of things you could call the Dartz Prombron, but small, economical and svelte certainly aren’t among them. The hulking Latvian SUV is about as brutish as they come, and while Dartz has ventured into sleeker territory with the Nagel concept, that’s little more than a cut-down Prombron made for towing speedboats. [...]
One of our all-time favorite concept car from Ford remains the GT90. As a modern interpretation of the Ferrari-besting GT-40, the GT90 offered all of the early ’90s angles we could stand along with a 750-horsepower V12 engine and a theoretical top speed of 235 miles per hour. This is the kind of machine that [...]
Earlier this year, executive editor Chris Paukert and I were chatting one morning about the 2011 Audi A6 he was driving – a car that would soon be replaced with the sharp new 2012 model you see here. Of course, we discussed how the car’s styling was growing a bit long in the tooth, but [...]
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