Koenigsegg's first hybrid car is innovative. It is always difficult to write about Koenigsegg because the Swedish firm decline to offer its hypercars to motoring journalists for extensive testing.

New V12 model returns to its roots as a grand tourer like 550 Maranello... In 1996, Luca Montezemolo revived Ferrari’s traditional front-engined V12 GT, a format preferred by Enzo Ferrari, with 550 ...

Electric muscle car both surprises and disappoints... If muscle cars are nonsense, an electric muscle car sounds even more ridiculous. Somehow, I do love the concept of Dodge Charger Daytona very much ...

To repeat an icon is not easy. To reinvent an icon is even harder. Renault succeeds in doing so. Few small cars have so much visual appeal. The reborn Mini has it, so is Fiat 500. They are successful ...

6 cylinder engines, no matter inline-6 or V6, are inherently smoother than 4-cylinder inline engines because all the first order and second order forces can be balanced. However, most small cars do ...

Whenever I mention Subaru, the images of the first generation Impreza WRX always flash in my mind. Undoubtedly, the first generation WRX was the symbol of Subaru as well as one of the iconic cars in ...

Ram air intake is perhaps the simplest kind of forced induction. When the car is travelling at speed, air will be forced into the intake manifold through the ram air inlet which usually locates at the ...

Manual transmission might be almost dead in the USA – only 4 percent of all new cars sold there are equipped with stick-shift – but in the rest of the world it is still the choice of the majority. For ...

A refined engine should be smooth running, free of vibration and quiet. These qualities also help the engine to spin freer at high rpm, lifting red line hence power output. Engine smoothness depends ...

135 was available in many body styles, shown here is the most beautiful - 135M roadster coachbuilt by Figoni & Falaschi Compare with another French marque Bugatti, Delahaye was not very famous.

All cars need energy for propulsion. When they decelerate and stop, the energy is wasted in braking. Why not recapture the braking energy, store it and use it for acceleration later on? That is ...

Steering is very important to a car because it is the interface that the driver touches most. What makes a car's steering better than another? It is usually judged by several factors: directness, ...