On the surface, rear-engine cars make no sense. Having all that weight behind the rear axle is likely to make a car less easy to turn in and more eager to snap into oversteer; counteracting that ...

When it comes to fixing your differential, there’s bad news and good news. The bad news is that differential replacements are expensive, often ranging from $2,500 to $6,000. The good news is that both ...

There are a few reasons to put the engine at the back of a car instead of the front or middle. Front-wheel drive is, relatively speaking, a modern phenomenon for vehicles, so the first reason was to ...

There are lockers and knockers, limited slips and Sure Grips. Sometimes they're called Positractions and sometimes much worse. But this name game is really about the concept of pushing equal measures ...

In moving the engine to the rear, Garlits learned three lessons: slow the steering down, use an open rearend, and put an airfoil on the front! The following story originally appeared with the title of ...

When Volkswagen created the New Beetle in the late ’90s, it revived the iconic shape of the original people’s car, but not much else. The original was pushed around by an air-cooled boxer ...