One of the most important things to keep in mind when building your car for any kind of motorsport application is that the tires are almost always the most important part of your “build.” Well, okay, driving ability is most important, but tires are second. You have to have good tires to build the foundation of … Read more
Most people go through life perfectly happy with a car exactly as it left the factory on its build date. It’s a handful of years of oil changes and tire rotations before trading it in for the next new thing. But my brain is broken (that goes without saying, I work here) in the way … Read more
Perfect daily driver, if you ask me. Gif: Paton Machines via YouTube The internet is awash with budding mechanics undertaking some audacious builds. There are people like Whistlindiesel building jet-powered merry-go-rounds, another wrencher is working to restore a six-figure one-off Rolls-Royce and now someone is assembling a ridiculous motorcycle from tractor parts in their shed. … Read more
A view of a Tesla Cybertruck parked in Noe Valley of San Francisco, California, United States on January 6, 2024. Image: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu (Getty Images) It has been about six months since Tesla’s Cybertruck made headlines for its unique aerodynamic wheel covers. The wheel covers eventually caused a stop-sale because they gradually ground holes in … Read more
As electric cars have taught us, car tires are a major source of undesirable noise in a car’s cabin. Honda has an ingenious solution to the issue, hidden resonators that work to cancel out the noise tires make, kind of like noise-cancelling headphones. Tires are like balls in that they are made of rubber and filled with … Read more
Image: Ferrari When the Ferrari Enzo supercar launched to the world back in 2002, the best that Pirelli could build was wrapped around the wheels of the angular icon. By today’s standards, after 22 years of development, those tires might as well be trash. For the Enzo to stand tall and deliver in 2024, it … Read more
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, March 27, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Even EVs Can’t Get A Break From The Heat 1st Gear: Toyota Sued For Maintenace Plan Scam A … Read more
There are no two ways about it, Formula 1 is a big ol’ waste of natural resources in the name of entertainment, burning through fuel at each race, releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through the transportation of equipment around the world and chucking out hundreds of tires every weekend. Now, in an … Read more
Screenshot: Tyre Reviews When it comes to buying tires, the default advice for a long time has been to just get the Michelins. They won’t be as cheap as some of the other tires the shop sells, but you’ll get a fantastic tire that’s essentially guaranteed to be either the best or one of the … Read more
It has come to our attention that the world is expensive right now. Just the mere act of surviving costs more than it ever has, and wages aren’t keeping pace with inflation. You’ve still got expenses, and it always seems that an emergency crops up at exactly the wrong time. So if you got a … Read more
