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How Motorcycle Traction Control Systems Work
How Motorcycle Traction Control Systems Work

9 Apr 2014, 16:17 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Traction Control Systems, generally referred to as TCS, have begun to be a part of our everyday riding lives and are becoming increasingly common in new motorcycles. From sport to adventure bikes, m...

 
The Stupidest Car Accessories Ever: Tuning Fail
The Stupidest Car Accessories Ever: Tuning Fail

9 Apr 2014, 15:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Custom vehicles exist almost from the beginning of the auto industry as some of the first cars ever sold were just rolling chassis you could take to a coach builder and have your unique body panelli...

 
7 Reasons Why We Crash in the Spring
7 Reasons Why We Crash in the Spring

4 Apr 2014, 16:44 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Alrighty, the riding season kicks off and it brings back the wind-in-your-face joy, but packed with the risks we’ve forgotten all about during the winter. And since I’ve already got news...

 
ZIL Amphibious Screw Vehicles: a Cool Soviet Era Invention
ZIL Amphibious Screw Vehicles: a Cool Soviet Era Invention

29 Mar 2014, 16:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Take a moment to think about the wheel and the rubber tire. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to get about our daily lives and try as they might, engineers have yet to invent something better. I...

 
917 Going 919: Porsche's Big Le Mans Comeback
917 Going 919: Porsche's Big Le Mans Comeback

13 Mar 2014, 17:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The past fourteen 24 Hours of Le Mans races have been nothing but boring endurance events that ended with Audi taking the checkered flag on 12 occasions. No, wait, make that 13. Team Bentley was jus...

 
Top 5 Most Wanted Cars from Geneva
Top 5 Most Wanted Cars from Geneva

7 Mar 2014, 14:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / In terms of supercar and hypercar premieres it doesn’t get any better than this year’s Geneva Motor Show. The venue had its hands full in the two press days that preceded the actual kick...

 
Michael Schumacher's Coma: Two Months on, Questions Persist
Michael Schumacher's Coma: Two Months on, Questions Persist

28 Feb 2014, 19:26 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / If this was a bissextile year, tomorrow would be the 29th of February, precisely two months after Michael Schumacher's serious skiing accident. Two months of Schumi no longer driving, ridin...

 
Japanese Bikes Are the Most Reliable, Which Is the Worst?
Japanese Bikes Are the Most Reliable, Which Is the Worst?

28 Feb 2014, 16:35 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / There are countless reasons for deciding to buy a motorcycle, and frankly, pretty much all of them make sense in a way or another. From people getting on the bike to save off the petrol bill or reac...

 
High-Performance Pickup Trucks: A Deep Dive
High-Performance Pickup Trucks: A Deep Dive

27 Feb 2014, 15:53 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / It was 1925 when the first factory-built pickup truck became available in dealerships. It was called the Ford Model T "Runabout with Pickup Body" and sold for 281 dollars. It took Ford ano...

 
Sticker Bomb and the Geeky Art of Cartoon Car Wrapping
Sticker Bomb and the Geeky Art of Cartoon Car Wrapping

21 Feb 2014, 18:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The car world is full of some really awful stereotypes and catch phrases. We often hear that X or Y model is "the car for you", "has been designed specifically for the young demograph...

 
2015 Chak Molot, the Safest Motorcycle Around?
2015 Chak Molot, the Safest Motorcycle Around?

20 Feb 2014, 14:44 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Molot is Russian for “sled.” The Chack Molot should have also received some prefix, such as “super” or “ultra,” as we're dealing with a completely different ...

 
2015 Ferrari California T Tech Explained
2015 Ferrari California T Tech Explained

12 Feb 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Now that Ferrari has officially announced its turbo comeback through the Geneva-bound California T, it’s time to get into the depths of this forced induction Italian. We'll obviously s...

 
The Story Behind Lexus’ Spindle Grille
The Story Behind Lexus’ Spindle Grille

3 Feb 2014, 19:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Lexus came on the market with this so-called "spindle design" grille that shook the world in both ways. Some were outraged, while others just bought the cars

 
Geco, the Shape-Shifting Motorcycle of the Future
Geco, the Shape-Shifting Motorcycle of the Future

31 Jan 2014, 15:41 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Project Geco is the brain child of Eric Pepe Offenstadt, who leads a small, but highly enthusiastic, development team. Geco is also the result of countless years of painstaking research in the motor...

 
2015 Mustang Chief Engineer Interview: Can't Wait for People to Drive It!
2015 Mustang Chief Engineer Interview: Can't Wait for People to Drive It!

14 Jan 2014, 01:12 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Now that the Ford Mustang has left its live rear axle behind in favor of an independent rear suspension, the time has come to talk to the pony's chief engineer

 
A Voyage to Lilliput's Mercedes-Benz Cars
A Voyage to Lilliput's Mercedes-Benz Cars

8 Jan 2014, 20:19 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / If Jonathan Swift had lived in our times instead of three centuries ago, I would have most likely kidnapped and maybe even tortured him in order to rewrite the first part of his Gulliver's Trav...

 
How BMW Is Fighting the Niche War
How BMW Is Fighting the Niche War

31 Dec 2013, 10:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The way BMW handles its business these days has simply stunned a lot of people. Even those that are usually on par with the newest additions to every possible niche in the automotive segment find it...

 
AMG Vision Gran Turismo Tested on Gran Turismo's Nurburgring
AMG Vision Gran Turismo Tested on Gran Turismo's Nurburgring

12 Dec 2013, 13:38 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / When Mercedes-Benz announced that they will make a virtual concept car for a Sony Playstation game we giggled with enthusiasm like a bunch of schoolgirls, but when we learned that the game to be fea...

 
Exclusive Interview: Bentley SUV Talk with Bart Gerris, Europe Director
Exclusive Interview: Bentley SUV Talk with Bart Gerris, Europe Director

5 Dec 2013, 17:33 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Somewhere around Crewe, UK, a group of people are working on what they claim will be not just a new car, but a new segment. One wouldn’t quite expect something like that in 2013, but when thos...

 
2013 Mazda3 Hatchback First Drive
2013 Mazda3 Hatchback First Drive

13 Nov 2013, 10:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s a sunny November afternoon and the cab driver is struggling for about 20 minutes to find the luxury resort on the city’s outskirts where the launching ceremony is to be held. Finall...