Why is it that heavy steering is associated with sporty cars while light steering is associated with luxury cars?
I have a theory. In the early days of power steering, most sports cars went without for a few reasons.
Cost - Most sports cars were bare-bones vehicles and power steering would price them out of the […]
. . . on a car that didn’t have to be my daily driver, here’s what I would look at. All of these are available on Ebay as this is written with a Buy-it-now of less than $10,000.
If I were in the mood for a true classic, there’s this 1937 Buick Sedan.
Still in the classic […]
We’ve all had those moments when we knew that we were making a mistake, but went ahead with it anyway. Even though fixing the mistake would be much harder than just doing it right to begin with. We kid ourselves into believing that it’ll probably work, then kick ourselves afterward.
My latest what was I thinking […]
It’s been a bit hectic here.
Where’s my water pump?
My car is angry with me.
In the past few weeks, I’ve had more than my fair share of car trouble.
First, the cooling fan exploded on my 1991 BMW 750iL. Just flew to pieces. In the process of flying about under the hood, the fan blades managed to poke five (!) holes in my six-month-old radiator. They […]
My buddy Mike just got a G-Tech Pro RR. If you’re not familiar with this (or even if you are), it is a small windshield-mounted box which measures acceleration - both lateral and longitudinal. What this means is that it can give you your 0-60 mph times, quarter mile times and speeds, and cornering g-forces. […]
What can be improved on typical car door locks? After all, all they have to do is lock and unlock the car, either with a key, lock button, or remote.
Let’s look at the E32 BMW door locks and see what they added. Remember, these cars first came out in 1988.
Executive Car Service provides […]
The picture to the right is a diagram of the E32 (1988-1994 7-series) BMWs’ windshield wiper assembly. What is not immediately apparent from this diagram is the level of attention given to the engineering of this seemingly mundane system.
To wit:
When in slow speed, the wipers will switch to delay mode when the car is […]
