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Have you ever wondered how some people can fill the fenders of their cars with rubber without severely hacking up the sheetmetal or committing it to major reconstructive surgery (i.e., tubs, narrowed frame rails or narrower-than-stock rear axles)? The first step might include massaging the inner wheelwell, but a more refined method is to determine the proper wheel offset

Alligators are the most common form of highway debris that every year causes 25,000 accidents in the United States and Canada, according to a first-of-its-kind study conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, a research arm of the automobile association. An average of 90 of those crashes are fatal, according to the study, which was conducted from 1999 to 2001.

In 1998, the Volkswagen Group bought Rolls-Royce and its subsidiary marque Bentley for $750 million, after a fierce bidding war with BMW. Months later, it was revealed that for $65 million, BMW had made an end run and snookered away the rights to the Rolls-Royce name--arguably the only valuable asset in the whole deal.

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Sandblasting is a common method of stripping paint and rust off metal but it is often not the preferred method for automotive repair. There are several disadvantages to sandblasting. The first problem is that it can be hazardous to those doing the blasting...

According to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, today's cars have up to 50 microprocessors managing engine performance -- meaning the computing power in the average Toyota Camry is 1,000 times more complex than the system that guided Apollo 11 to the moon. But carmakers have kept a tight grip on access to automotive computers, forcing consumers to get their vehicles serviced at dealerships when independent repair shops can't access the car's brain

Think about it: At 6,000 rpm, a piston accelerates, comes to a complete stop, and repeats the cycle more than a 100 times per second! We're not talking about an electrical process here where a sensor samples info 100 times per second—we're describing a mechanical process where a 3-pound piston/rod assembly is trying to launch into orbit 100 times per second.

Jim Hall writes "For exotic sports-car fans (and Formula 1 fans) such as myself, it was the one event that I had hoped and dreamed would someday become reality: a tour of the fabled Ferrari factory. The romantic imagery of craftsmen hammering sheets of metal by hand to be fitted to a wooden mule so vivid in my mind from the countless hours of poring over Ferrari books in my youth has, in reality, long since gone the way of the dodo. Today’s Ferrari factory is about as modern as they come, complete with computerized quality-control stations where technicians must constantly check their work at every step of the construction and assembly process."