From the archive: We compare the AMC Gremlin, Chevrolet Vega, Ford Pinto, Simca 1204, Toyota Corolla, and Volkswagen Super Beetle to anoint the 1971 compact-car champ. From the January 1971 issue of ...

Ford's Adaptive Steering is a technology that enhances steering input changes in real time. The mechanism consists of a small motor, an electronic control unit (ECU), and a steering gear unit, all ...

Time capsules usually offer small windows into the past, like letters, photos, or maybe a newspaper, but few are large enough to fit an actual car. One ambitious exception is the so-called “World’s ...

This silent footage captures the relocation of books and materials at Columbia University in 1932. The scene unfolds with workers unloading books from Butler Library and transferring them across the ...

The hit 1980s action series, Knight Rider, tuned an entire generation into the idea of self-driving cars – and an aircraft-style steering yoke replacing the steering wheel. And with the facelifted ...

Yes, but with greater difficulty…and therefore more slowly and more carefully. All the mechanisms that link the steering wheel ring with the front wheels are still there. In modern systems they are ...

If you’ve noticed some troubles with the steering on your new Civic, Integra, HR-V, or CR-V, you’re not alone. Honda is recalling nearly 1.7 million examples of Civic-based vehicles from the 2022 ...

As GM Authority previously covered, select GMC Sierra models were upgraded to a tilt and telescoping steering column due to a constraint of the manual tilt column. Now, the supply issue has been ...

For last week's column about the brilliant Alpine A110, I spoke with the car's chief engineer, David Twohig, and the subject of steering came up (as it often does among enthusiasts). The A110 has ...

A lot of the engineering stories I write start off as questions I don't have good answers for. In this case it was two: What is good steering feel? And, how do you achieve it? After interviews with a ...