Photo: Ford If you want a pickup truck that can handle pretty much anything you throw at it, it’s hard to do better than a Ford Ranger Raptor or Bronco Raptor. They aren’t cheap, but they were designed with hardcore off-roading and desert racing in mind and are ridiculously capable on the trail. For any … Read more
A gymnast can actually perform both of these types of rotation at the same time—that’s what makes the sport so interesting to watch. In physics, we would call this type of movement a “rigid body rotation.” But, clearly, humans aren’t rigid, so the mathematics to describe rotations like this can be quite complicated. For the … Read more
Photo: Paragon Performance Customers are starting to take deliveries of the all-new Corvette E-Ray. As is tradition with all-new performance cars, someone has already strapped it to a dyno to see how much power it actually has. That someone is Paragon Performance with its all-wheel-drive dyno. Well, it turns out the E-Ray makes a hell of … Read more
Image: Honda Back when I was in college, I worked in an auto parts factory owned by Japanese suppliers. The twin principles of kaizen and kanban effectively ran my day to the second. If anything went wrong with any part of the production, the whole thing would be shut down until the fault was found … Read more
