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Category: UncategorizedNot much of the Ram is modified, but there is still plenty here to separate the new Dodge Ram from its other half-ton competitors, especially the two revamped trucks (from GM and Toyota). Most notable, all new Rams now use a rear coil-spring suspension with trailing arms to locate the live axle, a la Jeep [...]
The 2012 Ford Focus is one of the big reasons this is such a great time for people who love small cars. Never before has there been such a collection of thoroughly modern, great driving compacts from which to choose. The problem is which one do you choose? Well, it seems a lot of buyers [...]
The Ford Mustang really is just a one-trick pony. And that trick is impression. It won’t matter if you don’t like coupes or you don’t like North American cars in general, or Ford specifically or even if you think sports cars are supposed to have more supposed to have more substance than just raw power. [...]
Honda’s announcement that it was returning to 500cc grand prix racing in 1979, after an absence of 12 years, caused less of a sensation than the news that their GP contender was a four-stroke, at a time when two-strokes seemed to rule GP races. Moreover, it quickly became apparent that this engine was really an [...]
To start with, not much of Ram was changed, thought there are still plenty of reasons that make the new Dodge Ram stand out from its’ competitors. One of the most notable feature of all new Rams now is the rear coil-spring suspension with trailing arms to locate the live axle. This change saves about [...]
When the Triumph company decided in the mid-Thirties that its future was in the production of automobiles and threatened to close down the motorcycles side of the business, Ariel chief Jack Sangster stepped in and set up a deal under which two-wheeler production continued under the management of Edward Turner, designer of the Ariel Square [...]
Were the British motorcycle manufacturers too conservative or did the Japanese catch them napping? Whatever it was, the arrival of the Honda 750 in 1969 was followed by a flood of other multi-cylinder bikes that dealt a devastating blow to the British industry. In one last desperate effort, the leading British makers attempted to reestablish [...]
Like the mythological Phoenix, one of the great English marques has risen from the ashes. Triumph, which built its first two-wheelers in 1902, went down with the parent BSA group in 1972 and was taken over by a government-backed workers’ cooperative that, unfortunately, ran out of money at the start of the Eighties. But the [...]
The family of off-road bikes is a large one, where each branch is based on a very different philosophy. There are bikes suitable for use off- and on-road, trail bikes, trials bikes, enduros, scramblers, and motocross machines. Motocross has been called “mechanized steeple chasing.” It’s a more sophisticated form of the British sport of scrambling [...]
