Just like the foot bone's connected to the leg bone, it's only natural to think that a car's engine is connected to its rear wheels. This seemingly reasonable assumption would be wrong—at least in ...

What is a torque converter besides a big round thing used with automatic transmissions that holds a lot of tranny fluid and makes a mess if you spill it? I wasn't sure either; maybe this is due to the ...

An automatic transmission is kinda like a parent of a three-year-old child; it does everything for the driver. Want to reverse? Just move the shift lever to R. Want to drive? Put the lever in D, and ...

Across the United States, a crucial piece of emissions equipment has quietly turned into one of the hottest targets for organized theft. The catalytic converter, a metal canister most drivers never ...

With or without a clutch pedal, all cars have three elements that make up their performance combination: the car's weight, horsepower, and gear ratios. When a torque converter is added in place of a ...

Cars are major greenhouse gas emitters. Every year, vehicles worldwide pump out millions of tons of CO2, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and a range of other gasses that contribute to global warming ...

Catalytic converters are found in pretty much every car, but you rarely ever see them. They're tucked deep in the exhaust to work as efficiently as possible, eliminating hydrocarbon and carbon ...