Automotive Technology and Road Safety

Features on automotive trends, destinations, auto shows, technology, road safety and interesting articles from the motoring world presented in well-written articles with photo galleries.

Smitten by the EcoSport? So were we, which is why we didn't pass up the chance to interview one of the men responsible for its evocative design, J Mays, Group Vice President, Design, and Chief


Designer Diary: Ford Chief Creative Officer J. Mays image

You take them for granted every day you drive; those 4 contact patches of your car's tires that embrace terra firma. Within the safe confines of your car, your life depends on them.


Stretching the Rubber Envelope image

Everyone in the industry seems to have an advocacy program for road safety. However, many advocacies tend to remain in armchairs, often missing a real, concrete plan for action.


Wear. Believe. Act. image

Previous to the OM 636, diesel power was mainly understood in these islands to mean huge marine engines that power ships, slow revving engines that drive remote power generators and big displacement iron block power


The Philippine Diesel Engine Experience image

In Japan, it is said that the people who bow the most and the lowest are the businessmen. They will bow as deep as appropriate, to apologize for the slightest unhappiness of the customer.


Restoring Trust the Toyota Way image

With Ford's reduced stake in Mazda, the signs are ominous and it goes beyond Ford's reduced management footprint on the Japanese company's Board.


Mazda's High Tech Alternative image

Once derided as a sop to the weaker [read: feminine sex], automatic transmissions are now the rule in many of the world's car markets. Long a staple in the USA, where manual gearboxes are the


Making Automatic Sense image

Once upon a time, life was much simpler. Diesel engines were heavy, smoky and slow but they were thrifty. Normal engines were quick and bigger engines were quicker.


Life After VTEC image

We see it almost everyday from a factory that display it proudly to the child seat in the back of your own car... but have you ever actually wondered what ISO means?


ISO and Your Car image

Strange but true: by adding another clutch, you can take away the clutch pedal.


Porsche's PDK dual clutch image