Since the health of our planet became a major societal focus decades ago, automotive engineers have been on a mission to find a balance between performance and efficiency. In the past, the two ...

Those of you who drive older trucks might wonder about the magic that apparently gives newer rigs the ability to produce such impressive fuel-economy figures. You may know that newer trucks tend to ...

If necessity is the mother of invention, as the clich goes, then perhaps consumer demand is a favorite aunt. That was certainly the case with Jamie Passon of Passon Performance in Sugarloaf, ...

Ford's "RUG" top loader 4-speed has been around in one form or another since 1964. Up until its first phase out in 1973, it was built as a "conventional" transmission with 1:1 final drive ratio. In ...

In the past, automatic transmission swaps were normally done so the tranny would handle the extra power of a new (or bigger) engine combination. Rarely, if ever, were gear ratios or the benefits of ...