Content tagged with “cars”

“ A discussion about how car chases are staged and filmed. ”

“ A short examination of how NASCAR regulates the shape of its cars. ”

“ With the help of Red Bull, a team builds a camera fast enough to follow an F1 car around a very fast track ”

“ In the last 20 years, there has been a significant decrease of dead bugs on car windshields. This might be a result of a massive decline in the number of insects in the Earth biome. ”

“I had trouble connecting with this book. It describes Grand Prix and rally racing of the 1930s – the ‘Golden Age of Auto Racing,’ this era is called. Racing, especially then, is, by nature, visceral and sensory, and I felt disconnected from it. The central theme is that Hitler and the Nazis used…”

“ Throughout the 20th century, leaded gasoline additives likely have caused more deaths, crime, and intellectual disabilities than almost any other invention. ”

“ The least safe car sold in the United States is a whole lot safer than the least safe car sold in Mexico. This is very apparent when you run one into the other. ”

“ Mesmerizing time-lapse video of the complete build of a Porsche 911 GT3, from first weld to first track run. ”

“ A side-by-side analysis of two Formula One drivers on the same track showing the tiny choices that separated their lap times by 0.35 seconds. ”

“The difference between four-wheel drive (4WD) and all-wheel drive (AWD) can be a little vague. I read a lot of resources, and they waffle quite a bit. In general: All-Wheel Drive requires no driver input. There’s a computer in the car that just makes it work. The car usually drives two wheels, but…”

“ The tiny subculture of coast-to-coast racers is accusing one of their own of faking a record run. ”

“The name is French for ‘single shell.’ This is a type of vehicle where the main load-bearing structure is an enclosed shell, rather than behind (1) body-on-frame, or (2) unibody. A unibody vehicle has panels which are fastened together to provide structure. However, a true monocoque is…”

“ A car company claimed to have driven their car at 331 mph. But some viewers proved they didn’t, using nothing a stopwatch and Google Maps. ”

“ Out in the middle of the Arabian desert is a house disguised as a pickup truck. ”

“ On two occasions, Saab ran stock cars around a super-speedway at about 140mph continuously for several weeks just to prove their reliability. ”

“ To remove a sunken cargo ship, the salvage crew cut it into pieces with a massive cutting chain. ”

“ A donor organ was rushed to its recipient in a Lamborghini police car. ”

“ A GIF that shows the difference in shock absorption between a truck with wheels connected by solid axles, and another with wheels independently suspended. ”

“ In San Francisco, there’s a billboard ad from 1993 that’s occasionally revealed. People have started taking pictures of it on the rare times it’s visible. ”

“ Lack of road traffic has allowed the record for fastest cross-country run to be broken five times in seven weeks. It’s been lowered to a level likely only possible during a pandemic. ”

“ Morbidly, auto crashes are a good source of healthy organs for transplantation. Pandemic lockdown means fewer crash deaths, and therefore fewer organs for transplant. ”

“ A vehicle was designed to move scientists around Antarctica in the 1930s. It performed poorly, was abandoned, re-discovered in the 50s, re-abandoned, and might now be floating around the South Pacific, encased in an iceberg. ”

“ The front tires of Formula One cars are not normally pointed straight ahead, which sounds ridiculous, but this video clearly explains why. ”

“ A bizarre recounting of an almost mythical set of Ferrari F40s ordered by the Sultan of Brunei. It’s odd for both how carefully the F40 chassis are tracked, and for the absurd wealth and waste of the royal family. ”

“ In Africa, automakers are held to much lower crash test standards, so they make cheaper cars. This test shows an African version of a Nissan truck crashing into a European version. ”

“ For a few years now, Ford has had headlights that use GPS to know when the road ahead is curving, then turn the beam to illuminate what’s around the bend. ”

“ Someone found a weirdly rare car abandoned in a parking garage. The article explains the history of the EV1 and why GM tried to kill them all. ”

“ The details of a wildly irresponsible Cannonball run across the United States, from NYC to LA. They averaged 103mph. ”

“ An homage to the vanishing days when the big, black cars floated through the streets of NYC. ”

“ Interesting look at how parking has defined Los Angeles and is the biggest impediment to additional housing. Los Angeles is a city built for cars, not people. ”

“ A long, contemplative video of a single Mercedes technician hand-building a high-performance V8. I can’t believe I watched the entire thing. ”

“ The convoluted tale of a missing car, and the guy who searches for it for a living. ”

“ A detailed look at the sometimes hilariously over-engineered 2004 Volkswagen Touareg. Some of the luxury features just boggle the mind. My head is spinning with visions of the repair bills. ”

“ There’s a low bridge in North Carolina so famous for catching tall trucks that someone has installed a camera and recorded 145 crashes since 2008. ”

“A disappointing book. It’s about making cars. You might think, ‘Well, yeah, this is about Toyota, right?’ And it is, so I should of known it was about making cars, but it’s really about making cars, and how many people actually make cars? Clearly, most people are going to read this with an eye…”