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JUNE 25, 2025

Its got five doors, two seats, and more off-road capability than a low-floor cargo van without the ultra-high ride height (and associated bed height) of a modern pickup truck. For the contractor with job sites located way off in the Adirondacks or the Appalachian mountains, you might not be able to ask for a better work truck fit.

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Jalopnik

JULY 12, 2025

All Rights Reserved Theres A Good Reason Semi Trucks Dont Use V8s Latest News Reviews Brands Car Types Buying Culture Tech Beyond Cars Racing QOTD Features Newsletter Advertise Car Types Trucks Theres A Good Reason Semi Trucks Dont Use V8s By Justin Hughes July 12, 2025 5:25 pm EST CK Foto/Shutterstock V8 engines are among our favorites.

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JULY 8, 2025

Never mind that the bed is full of suspension components, rollcage bars, and a fuel cell — and that it lacks such modern truck bed amenities as "a floor." Just think about the noise this engine makes, the way itll throw your head against the headrests of those Bride seats, and all the good times youll have in a properly-sized pickup.

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JULY 11, 2025

All Rights Reserved What Otherwise Good Car Had A Terrible Engine? Latest News Reviews Brands Car Types Buying Culture Tech Beyond Cars Racing QOTD Features Newsletter Advertise QOTD What Otherwise Good Car Had A Terrible Engine? Now, Im not going to put you in any sort of box when it comes to what a "terrible engine" is.

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JUNE 12, 2025

The multi-adaptive safety belt is engineered to adapt its function based on real-time data received from the vehicle’s sensors. Photo: Volvo Volvo Cars has introduced a new safety belt technology called the multi-adaptive safety belt. Photo: Volvo Volvo Cars has introduced a new safety belt technology called the multi-adaptive safety belt.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 23, 2025

Finance , Rivian Chief Software Engineer Wassym Bensaid revealed that the EV startup will be providing the underlying tech stack for all future EVs from the Volkswagen Group. Basically, Volkswagen and its brands have decades of mechanical engineering experience, but comparatively little in software engineering.

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Jalopnik

JULY 2, 2025

In a statement, the company said that the move will mark "a bold step in unifying high-performance engineering across Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram under a single, dedicated identity." After all, Kuniskis is the guy who spearheaded putting Hemi V8s back in Ram pickup trucks. In theory, this sounds like a great idea.

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Automotive Fleet

JUNE 12, 2025

Updated Features on the Tiguan Model The Tiguan model now sports a new, more powerful engine with 268 horsepower and optimal fuel efficiency. The 2026 trims include S, SE, SE R-Line Black and a new SEL R-Line Turbo, with the Turbo sporting a new and improved evo5 engine. The new model also has a premium cabin and new exterior.

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Jalopnik

JULY 10, 2025

All Rights Reserved I Need A Cheap And Sturdy Truck To Haul Furniture! Latest News Reviews Brands Car Types Buying Culture Tech Beyond Cars Racing QOTD Features Newsletter Advertise Buying Advice I Need A Cheap And Sturdy Truck To Haul Furniture! Sure, there are plenty of small and midsize trucks to pick from, but who wants that trash?

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Jalopnik

JUNE 9, 2025

Ram also chose this weekend to announce that, after 13 years of watching from the sidelines, it will return to racing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Body lines around the fenders and grille carry a familiar appearance, framing a large Ram logo that separates this truck from the pack." citizen) immigrant.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 25, 2025

Do you want to know what I think drove Mazda to kill off the rotary engine as a primary motivator in its cars? That model, along with its rotary engine, went out of production in 2012, while the Miata soldiers on to this very day. The engine in todays 2001 Land Rover Range Rover is not quite so exotic.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 19, 2025

liter V8 is known to be one of the most reliable engines ever produced by the Japanese carmaker. market Land Cruisers are large and luxurious, which broadens their appeal among family buyers seeking a tough truck. All Rights Reserved Why Do Land Cruisers Have Such Good Resale Value?

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Jalopnik

JUNE 27, 2025

Serpentine belts could be one application, useful on hard-to-reach engines, but I was thinking more about timing belts. If a timing belt snaps in an interference engine, pistons hit valves, and the entire engine must be rebuilt or replaced.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 16, 2025

What comes next for GMA Heres what the heads of the company told the outlet : Phillip Lee, the CEO of the Gordon Murray Group, said: "We are excited to offer customers the opportunity to create the bespoke supercar of their dreams with the GMSV design and engineering teams. All Rights Reserved The GMA T.50s

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JULY 2, 2025

Its not just the engine doing all the work, and it would be useless if there wasnt anything there to ignite the air/fuel mixture that causes the explosion to push the pistons down and get the car moving. The latter has a direct connection with the engine, and if contaminated by oil, your car isnt going anywhere.

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Jalopnik

JULY 2, 2025

The Ferrari Amalfi mimics that vibe and follows in the Romas footsteps as a 2+2 coupe thats less hardcore than the brands rear-mid-engine models. seconds, and a reworked engine thats designed to be more rev-happy. The convertible version will be unveiled next year to replace the Roma Spider.) Sounds tasty. Sounds tasty.

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Tomorrow's Technician

JUNE 25, 2024

With a father who was an automotive engineering expert, experience in farming and a passion for the technical precision of music, he says it was only natural that he would pursue degrees in agricultural engineering and eventually teaching. Yet he says it’s hands-on work that really excites him. “I So that shapes how I teach now.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 18, 2025

These give you a lot of the same cosmetic and under-the-skin upgrades of the 63 models, but theyve got smaller engines that arent as powerful. Still, models with AMGs latest four-cylinder are handbuilt with the "one man – one engine" standard that higher-up AMG models get, so thats neat.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 24, 2025

But while it will include a rotary engine, expect the production version to be a range-extended hybrid like the MX-30 E-Skyactiv R-EV that never made it to the U.S. Unlike the MX-30, though, the new RX-7 — or perhaps it will be called the RX-9 — will have a more powerful rotary engine that also meets emissions requirements.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 18, 2025

Now, Ram has a new plan to turn things around with a 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty on 2026 model year trucks and vans. So if you want a full-size truck with the best powertrain warranty, Rams now the brand to buy. Engines arent necessarily blowing up or anything like that. Plus, it doesnt apply to fleet sales.

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Autoshop Solutions

APRIL 18, 2025

Bob Taepke designed the site for Blackwater Diesel, a heavy-duty truck repair shop in Clearwater, FL. According to their website, the Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing, and design of traditional and emerging media. Magazine in the Top 10 Websites.

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JULY 4, 2025

Also referred to as port and polish, the idea is simple: Open up the intake and exhaust ports, smooth the rough walls by polishing them, and let your engine breathe better. You may have learned all the wrenching skills and sure, a handy DIYer with a Dremel and some engine smarts can take a crack at it. Done right, it works.

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Brake & Front End

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The shop offers high-quality automotive and truck repair services to the Denver, Greenwood Village, Englewood, Parker, and Aurora, Colorado areas. “We They staff A-level technicians who focus on different makes and models, allowing the shop to offer a complete range of repairs for all vehicle makes and models, including diesel engines.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 12, 2025

Caught by Car Spy Media , the new Bimmer scythes through the most famous corners in Germany without any engine roar at all, decked out in supposedly camera-confusing livery (though the camera that took the video would disagree).

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Jalopnik

JULY 11, 2025

Automakers are phasing out internal combustion engine production, and the future looks, well, eerily silent. Call it gutsy or far-fetched, but it just might be the Hail Mary that gives gas engines another shot at glory. Synhelion is targeting the fleet of existing cars, trucks, and classic vehicles.

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Jalopnik

JULY 4, 2025

For decades, thats been the narrative: Japanese cars are practical and reliable, European cars are meticulously engineered, and their American counterparts are. Still, Rivians truck and SUV are good cars, and Im always more than happy to bring them up when someones considering getting a new vehicle. Is it true now? a little less so.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 17, 2025

Most Americans out there probably wont be watching the hillclimb live, but think about how big some of those runs have gotten online — I still remember the A90 Supras engine note from its camouflaged hill run back in 2018. Almost certainly not, but its nice to dream. Nailed the pitch.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 21, 2025

Bringing German engineering to Level 4 autonomous driving MOIA / VW Group The ID Buzz AD is the first vehicle in Germany to reach SAE Internationals threshold for Level 4 autonomous driving, meaning that the car can drive itself, with no need for a driver behind the wheel, within designated areas. according to VW Group CEO Oliver Blume.

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Jalopnik

JULY 4, 2025

You can destroy your cars engine by driving in too deep of water and cause hydrolocking. This is what happens when water is drawn into the engine cylinders via the air-intake system. Ultimately, the cars engine will stall out and seize up after sucking in water. Hydrolock is the answer.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 25, 2025

That plus a revised engine tune bumps Sadairs Spear up slightly to 1,300 horsepower on pump gas and 1,625 hp on E85. Simplify, then add lightness and power Koenigsegg Some of Colin Chapmans philosophy shows in Sadairs Spear, though not to the exclusion of more power. Unique hood scoops funnel more air into the same twin-turbo 5.0-liter

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Jalopnik

JUNE 10, 2025

The partially Iveco-based Magnum was fairly trucky, using a turbodiesel engine or either a supercharged four-cylinder from Lancia or a V6 from Alfa Romeo, though it did have a nice leather-lined interior. liter truck version, and you could option on a supercharger. For the U.S. liter V8 from GM, also with an Eaton supercharger.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 25, 2025

Seeing the car out there, and especially hearing its unique inline-5 engine echoing off the mountainside, brought Pikes Peak history to life. He was there to commemorate the first, and so far only, woman to win the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Comment(s) Recommended

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Jalopnik

JUNE 28, 2025

And yet, its a common condition thats considered normal for internal combustion engines running on gasoline or diesel fuel. Water molecules can be formed during the normal operation of a catalytic converter, too, as well as by condensation caused from engine heat in cold weather. Whats so special about that gasket?

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Tomorrow's Technician

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Key to the efficiency and lifespan of the diesel engine is the diesel air filter. Diesel Air Filter’s job Diesel engines have a certain level of differential pressure that needs to be maintained. The job of the pressure gauge is to measure the amount of vacuum between the filter and the engine.

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Jalopnik

JULY 3, 2025

Ariel says a host of internal changes and new components push the 4RRs K20C engine up to its new heights. That first space-frame chassis Atom had a Rover engine that produced 120 horsepower, but things started heating up with the 2005 Atom 2, which was offered with a supercharged Honda Civic Type R engine producing 275 horsepower.

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Jalopnik

JUNE 21, 2025

Chevys engineers realized the ZR1X powertrain was going to make the car so quick that it would hit 150 mph before it completed the quarter-mile on a drag strip, disengaging the front motor in the process (as it does in the E-Ray). But theres no doubt that Chevys engineers deserve considerable props for their innovation. Not for me.

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The Mechanic Doctor

JUNE 23, 2023

The Mechanic Doctor - Resources for Amateur and Pro Auto Mechanics When it comes to maintaining the longevity and performance of your vehicle’s engine, an essential component to consider is the oil filter. In this article, we will explore 14 must-have engine oil filters that are known for their superior performance and reliability.

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