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 [...]
Toyota is considering moving production of the company’s Korean-market Camry to the United States, according to Reuters. The move would take advantage of the free trade agreement between the U.S. and South Korea and put Toyota in a better position financially as the yen continues to strengthen. The Korean-market Camry would be built alongside the [...]
Toyota is allowing its North American teams a bit more freedom to build cars that best suit the market in which they work. Earlier in the year, Toyota announced that American designers would be more keyed in to model development, and now comes word that the automaker will no longer be importing Japanese-builtCamry sedans into [...]
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