If you are a gearhead like us, you'll agree that one of the coolest sounds a racecar can produce, besides the exhaust note, is the high-pitched whine of a straight-cut gearbox. Most hardcore racecars ...

The crew at DailyDrivenExotics are keen on getting good use from high-dollar hypercars as they’ve already proven while doing donuts in a Mansory Edition Bugatti Veyron, shredding about $40,000 worth ...

There is no complex science behind what straight-cut gears are. It's exactly as it sounds, gears with teeth that run straight out from the center of the wheel, rather than slanting in a spiral. The ...

For many decades, most American cars were equipped with inline-six engines driving the rear wheels, and the straight-six remained the base engine in many models even after the V8 became King of ...

Back in the 1930s, the smooth-running straight-eight engine layout was far more popular than the V8, and most of the major American car companies (with the glaring exception of Ford) got into the ...

Once upon a time, the straight six was a dominant engine design. Jaguar put them in its best cars, Jeep built its late 20th century reputation upon them, and almost every humdrum family car or pickup ...