19th Feb 2018 4 mins Types of Brake Pads and Which Should You Use Speed merchants may not like to admit it but the ability to stop in good time far outweighs the importance of lightening quick acceleration. With that in mind, appropriate brake pads go some way towards ensuring motorists’ safety on the road. So what are they? Put simply, the component that applies the requisite pressure and friction to brake rotors, allowing a car to stop.
16th Feb 2018 4 mins What Is The Effect of Tailgating On Traffic? Tailgating is the scourge of drivers everywhere. Indeed there is seemingly no motorist safe from those intent on getting up close and personal, whose impatience come ignorance invariably brings us bumper-to-bumper. But aside from infuriating those on the receiving end, what effect do tailgaters have on traffic itself? A negative one, it transpires.
15th Feb 2018 6 mins Orchestrating Your Engine - Why Sound is Important High end car brands place huge importance on the sound their vehicles make because of how they believe it affects potential buyers. Many have dedicated departments that spend millions on precisely tuning their cars to produce a very specific sound designed to induce the desired effect.
19th Jan 2018 3 mins Why Burn Engine Oil? A bit of a stir occurred in F1 this 2017 season with regards to teams using engine oil in ways other than prescribed. Several teams are under suspicion of using oil to supplement their fuel and gain more power as a result, and whether this was clever innovation or just being sneaky is still being debated. To put some context behind this, fuel in F1 is heavily regulated. You are strictly limited to 105kgs, and additives are restricted to tiny amounts - leaving the fuel used in F1 engines very similar to that of ordinary road cars.
18th Jan 2018 3 mins Can Diesel Be Saved Diesel fuelled new cars sales have had a tough time this year. After the negative press surrounding their impact on the environment and the tax penalties suffered because of it, sales in the UK have dropped sharply. December has seen new diesel car sales drop by 31% on the year, following a similar drop in November (-30%) and October (-21%) – contributing to a 17% fall in annual diesel fuel car sales compared with 2016.
16th Jan 2018 4 mins Women In Engineering (And Why They Are Needed) Gender gaps in employment sectors are still very much a reality for more industries than modern society would like to admit. Industries ranging from Fashion to Science to IT have all seen their work forces skewed one way or the other and have, or are working towards, overcoming the issue of a gender biased workforce.
22nd Dec 2017 3 mins What Is Double Clutching (And Should You Do it)? “Granny shifting instead of double clutching like you should” Words made famous by ‘Dogranny-shiftingm’ (Vin Diesel) in 2001 film The Fast and the Furious. Maybe the low expectations of the movie led the makers to deem fact checking unnecessary, but this line staDouble clutchingnds out as a glaring error amongst a host of them relating to motor vehicles and their operation.
21st Dec 2017 5 mins Tesla's Electric Truck - Can it Deliver? In November 2017, Tesla announced their first effort in the commercial vehicle market – the Semi. In the presentation given by CEO Elon Musk, some very impressive claims were made about the capabilities of the Semi - but given Tesla’s problems surrounding the Model 3, can they deliver on them?