Ferrari has been the king of the supercar world for decades. But the truth is that it takes more than Ferrari’s iconic badge to make a supercar king. Across the world, brands produce supercars that, in different ways, give Ferrari a run for its money whether that’s through quick acceleration and top speed, bulletproof handling, […]
10 Historic British-Built V8 Engines and Their Engineering Heritage
A nation obsessed with talent, meticulous engineering, and small-bores, Britain’s car industry has naturally been enamored with creating high-performance engines that could punch well above their cubic inch limit. Whether in early experimental car setups like the 1905 Rolls-Royce V-8, or in some of today’s more refined twin-turbo powerplants from Lotus and McLaren, they showed […]
Exploring the Engineering and History of the World’s Ten Largest Aircraft
Aerospace engineering has always been about extremes, and nowhere has that been clearer than when considering airborne giants. These titanic marvels of engineering have been able to move everything from space shuttles and enormous industrial machinery to more than 600 passengers over vast distances. Size is never one thing or simply a number, it is […]
The Most Complicated Cars Ever Made: Engineering Genius That Came With a Price
Throughout the history of automobiles we can see designs that went a great deal further with the limits of engineering than they should have or needed to. Whereas for most manufacturers a working vehicle must also be of reasonable size, easy to repair and simple to run, for some vehicles these were a foreign concept […]
12 Vauxhall Engineering Breakthroughs That Shaped Its Automotive History
Vauxhall was, of course, a brand known for intelligent design, radical styling and making usefully stylish and affordable motor cars for everyone, for most of the twentieth century and before that, as well. The company became renowned throughout the world for its innovative mechanics, the way it organised production and for making vehicles which were […]
Inside the Porsche Vault: Exploring Rare Prototypes and Iconic Legends in Stuttgart
Tucked away in an unnamed building near Porsche’s Stuttgart factory lies a secure facility known simply as The Vault. While the public Porsche Museum showcases under 100 vehicles, this private collection houses more than 700 road, race, and rally cars documenting decades of the German manufacturer’s development heritage. The collection began in the late 1950s […]
Engineering Velocity: Analyzing the World’s Fastest Production Hypercars and Top Speed Legends
One of the most obvious indicators of automotive engineering desire has always been to pursue extreme velocity. It forces designers, engineers and manufacturers into a space where there is no room for aerodynamic efficiency, power delivery, materials, cooling, stability or precision manufacturing to fail. Today, the race has become a very technical affair, and production […]
A Deep Dive into Massive Engineering Feats and Pivotal Automotive History
The encounter with the very large can reshape your perception of the concept of engineering, engineering and in the same way the capability of man to work big plans. A bigger-then-normal vehicle, a mega-hangar building the giant plane models you would see on the airport but to accommodate really giants planes, or even constructions to […]
Honda Partners with Tata Technologies for End-to-End Vehicle Platform Engineering
Japanese carmaker Honda Motor has allegedly joined forces with India-based Tata Technologies to assist with the whole development of a new vehicle platform, which is a significant shift from the Japanese automaker’s typical policy of vehicle engineering. Chassis, powertrain and platform development are key areas that Honda has traditionally kept largely under its own control. […]
An Engineering Deep Dive into the 10 Fastest Steam Trains
The history of steam locomotives is not merely about locomotives and transportation, but rather a strong echo of the human aspiration and engineering genius. When sleek bullet trains and magnetic levitation systems transformed the speed of things, giant iron engines running on steam controlled the rails. These locomotives were created at the time when the […]