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  • Tesla Model S Battery Pack tear down

    When a Tesla is in an accident, it has a battery pack that's built to survive that crash as well as it possibly can. Those battery packs are then sent off to a recycler. They can be scrapped and used to create the components needed for new batteries, or they can be sold. That's what we have in the video above. The folks at EV West have taken delivery of a fresh battery pack from a Tesla Model S. Their plan is to tear it all down, remove the separate battery modules, and then install those modules in a number of their own vehicles for waiting customers. What does it take to break this whole...

  • Engineering Explained uses balloons and a Honda S2000 to demonstrate engine air flow
    How much air will an engine consume at wide open throttle?

    The headline to this article is clearly the type of question that keeps Engineering Explained host Jason Fenske up at night. Luckily for him, he's got the math and science skills to figure it all out. Fenske wanted to explain air intake for a given engine to the rest of us, and thus visual aids...

  • Porsche picked five models that it believes produce its top sounds
    Are these the five best sounding Porsche cars of all time?

    Porsche makes cars that drive phenomenally well. They also sound pretty amazing to boot. Porsche thinks it knows which of its cars sound the best overall, which is why the automaker rounded up five from the museum and put microphones to the exhaust. Do you think Porsche found its five...

  • Engineering Explained talks about McLaren suspension and its lack of sway bar
    McLaren has no need for your antiquated sway bars

    McLaren is a company that loves pushing the technological envelope. Be it the company's road cars or its racing machines, there is plenty of fascinating bits to be explored under the skin. One area that's proven to be rather interesting is in regards to the suspension employed on a number of modern...

  • Engineering Explained walks us through the Motor Trend 0-60 run with the Tesla Model S
    No, the Tesla Model S P100D doesn't do 0-60 in 2.28 seconds

    It's all about math and physics, folks. At least that's the soup that fills the head of Engineering Explained host Jason Fenske, which is why he's so easily able to explain scientific concepts to the average YouTube viewer. Recently, he posted a video going over the numbers produced by Motor Trend...

  • Jay Leno and the Pagani Huayra
    Jay Leno drives YouTuber’s former Pagani Huayra

    When Horacio Pagani first brought the Huayra to America, one of the first stops he made was at Jay Leno’s garage. That was back in 2011, and because the Huayra hadn’t been certified at the time Leno wasn’t actually able to drive the car. That issue was rectified just a year later...

  • 2017 Ford Mustang GT during filming of 'C’etait un Rendez-Vous’ remake

    Any car enthusiast knows the story of “Rendezvous,” the video of a highly illegal drive through the streets of Paris, supposedly, in a Ferrari 275 GTB. The video was created by filmmaker Claude Lelouch in August of 1976, and years later we learned that the car he used was actually a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9. Ford recently teamed up with Lelouch to recreate the famous scene, using a Mustang GT. But as a twist, the video was filmed with a 360-degree camera, allowing us to take in all the sights of modern Paris in the wee hours. That’s not the only twist, though. This time a...

  • Heel-and-toe vs. clutchless downshifts
    The merits of heel-and-toe vs. clutchless shifting on snow

    Heel-and toe shifting is a pretty cool trick that you can pull out to try to impress your car guy buddies on the street. If you get it right, maybe they'll be impressed. If that passenger is your wife, boss, any other non-car person, odds are they won't even know what you are talking about, and...

  • Point of view angle of the Ram Power Wagon's off-road suspension
    Be mesmerized by the action of this off-road suspension

    Suspension can be a surprisingly mesmerizing bit of mechanical enjoyment. Go stare at a Trophy Truck as it rips across the desert and think about all of the work that the springs and dampers are handling. The abuse being dished out is both amazing and terrifying. Yet those trucks float over most of...

  • 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, white
    Hagerty speculates on top 10 future classic cars, and we weigh in

    Wouldn't we all love to be Marty McFly? Then we could travel back in time to 1955, play Chuck Berry's 1958 song "Johnny B. Goode," and look like geniuses. The car guy equivalent would be going back to 1995, buying a Porsche 911 GT2 for just over six figures, socking it away for a couple decades...

  • Casey Currie takes on the Monza road course in his off-road racing "Jeep"
    Driving an off-road V-8 truck on a tarmac road course looks like fun

    The Monza Rally Show brings together all manner of racing machine eager to get down on a mixture of the circuit's racing surfaces. There was an entry this year that may have seemed a bit foreign to the Italian crowd watching and listening to the action. Wearing a Jeep badge and seven-slotted grille...

  • Ford has to water and splash test the GT
    Ford GT passes the Water and Splash Test

    The Ford GT has 647 horsepower and can reach a top speed of 216 mph. Beneath its skin sits a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 engine that produces 550 pound-feet of torque from as low as 3,500 rpm. It will cost you somewhere north of $450,000 to buy one, if you were lucky enough to be chosen by Ford...

  • McLaren P1 has an open differential

    The McLaren P1 is a hilariously complex and deliciously expensive hyper car. However, there is a simple and inexpensive secret lying underneath its rear end. Where you might expect to find some fancy torque-vectoring, power providing, hard working limited-slip differential, instead you'll find an open-differential setup. That's right, your $1.3 million spaceship for the road doesn't want you laying down some sweet, sweet 11s. Why is that and what sort of system is at play here? Jason Fenske from Engineering Explained is here to tell us all about that. He explains that the open differential...

  • Honda has built a motorcycle that self balances
    How Honda's self-balancing motorcycle works

    Do you wake up thinking about the effects of positive and negative trail length and their relation to motorcycle stability? No? Well, we're going to change that because you're going to learn a little bit about just that topic today. Jason Fenske from Engineering Explained is here to walk you...

  • Lola Mk6 GT stops by Jay Leno's Garage
    Legendary Lola Mk6 GT makes a pit stop in Jay Leno's Garage

    You all know that the Ford GT40 is an amazing and iconic racing machine. Do you know about the car that came before it and paved the way for its lovely looks? That honor sits with the Lola Mk6, or Lola GT as it's also called. Just three examples were ever built and one of them just made a stop at...

  • Snow trekking with Subaru's AWD system in snow
    How Subaru's AWD system works in the snow

    All-wheel-drive systems work in many different ways. They differ from four-wheel-drive systems in that they don't have a transfer case that typically provides low-range gearing. They all can work full time (though many have an axle disconnect feature to preserve fuel), while 4WD systems may or may...

  • Jay Leno takes a drive in a 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge
    Jay Leno visited by The Judge

    On the list of all-time great muscle cars, there's a place for the Pontiac GTO, and it slides in near the very top. After all, many consider the GTO to be the grandfather of all the muscle cars and for good reason. In 1964, Pontiac added a GTO package to the Tempest, which transformed the car into...

  • Engineering Explained talks about the banned F1 tech used by the LaFerrari
    How Ferrari's banned F1 technology works on the LaFerrari engine

    Anytime you get to use the term "banned F1 technology" you know you're going to be talking about something very interesting and very cool. That's the case today because the topic is the magical engine placed into the belly of the beast called the LaFerrari. This is a 6.3-liter 800-horsepower V-12...

  • 2018 Mercedes-AMG E63 S

    Mercedes-AMG has earned quite the name for itself over the years as Mercedes-Benz's performance arm, and for those who have forgotten the past—or never really knew it in the first place—a video is making the rounds showing AMG's roots. The video takes the viewer from AMG’s founding 50 years ago as a performance engine builder to its early motorsport efforts and eventual transition to official performance arm of Mercedes-Benz. The company, founded by Hans-Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher, was set up in an old mill in 1967, as an “engineering office and design and...

  • Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive
    Mercedes-AMG boss Moers says hybrids coming after 2020

    The future for Mercedes-AMG will be more than just fire-breathing, turbocharged engines. AMG boss Tobias Moers told Motor Authority on Thursday at a media event in Los Angeles that the brand will have a hybrid and electric future—maybe soon. "We are not able to change the future," Moers said...

  • Ed Pink Racing builds the engines for Singer
    Peek inside Ed Pink Racing to see where Singer gets its engines

    Starting back in the mid 1940s, a man named Ed Pink started building engines—masterfully built engines designed for vehicles to go racing. The Ed Pink Racing Engines enterprise has had a home in Van Nuys, California since 1965 and drag racers all over the world have turned to EPRE for...

  • Andy Wallace in the McLaren F1 during land speed record attempt on March 31, 1993
    Unseen footage reveals what it took for the McLaren F1 to hit 240.1 mph

    It’s now been 25 years since the McLaren F1 was unleashed on the world and to celebrate McLaren has dug up from its archives unseen footage taken during the car’s attempt at setting an official top speed. The attempt took place on March 31, 1993 on the famous Ehra-Lessien high-speed...

  • Engineering Explained talks about the improvements made with the new Michelin Pilot Sport 4S
    Has Michelin designed a better tire than its Pilot Super Sport?

    If you have a vehicle that likes to perform, you'll do best to fit it with a set of Pilot Super Sport tires from Michelin. This is a seriously good set of rubber that will have you turning faster lap times, finding more aggressive turn-in from your car, and braking in less distance when compared to...

  • Lamborghini Veneno in the wet
    Seeing the Lamborghini Veneno on a wet track is something special

    Supercar owners typically have an aversion to weather that's anything short of sunny and dry, so it's downright pleasantly surprising to see a Lamborghini Veneno being thrashed on a race course on a rainy day. There's not a lot of backstory on this one, but the video posted to YouTube by user...

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