Over the years, the trucks have certainly become more sophisticated. Take transmissions for example. At one time the only choices were "three-on-the-tree" or "four-on-the-floor" manual boxes. When ...

It's all too easy to make horsepower these days: add more cubic inches, some boost, or nitrous, and the pocket book is really the only limit when it comes to making power. Likewise, technology has ...

In ye olden days of auto manufacturing, three-speed automatics were fairly common. Top gear was usually direct drive, meaning the transmission's input shaft (which is directly connected to the engine) ...

Like most of you guys out there, flogging our cars at track events is only part of the equation. Hitting the open road and laying your foot down on lengthy cruises is just as gratifying— especially in ...

This 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air is a fully sorted, turn-key classic cruiser that has been thoroughly restored under long-term ...

Automatic transmission cars have the Overdrive (O/D) function which allows a driver to drive faster on the road. The o/d is the highest gear in an automatic transmission. The overdrive function ...

“For overdrive transmissions, common axle ratios were in the mid and low 3s,” he says. “Today, with a lot of these linehaul downspeeding specs, it starts with a 2.” Nearly 25 percent of the rear ends ...

Virtually, almost all passenger cars in Kampala are automatic transmissions and they all come with that Overdrive button on the gearshift. So what does it do? First off, when you press this button, ...