Ate Up With Motor

The Ate Up With Motor website will shortly be changing its certificate authority — the service that provides the encryption certificates used to provide secure connections (the “https” rather than “http”) — from Sectigo to Let’s Encrypt, as the earlier ty…

When was positive crankcase ventilation first adopted on U.S. cars?

We’ve already discussed the development of early auto emissions standards.

Few things have had a greater influence on the design and engineering of modern automobiles than emissions control regulations.

If you’ve looked at a BMW brochure in the past decade, you’ve probably noticed that most of the company’s offerings are now turbocharged.

I’ve made some significant changes, corrections, and additions to the Ford Cardinal/Taunus 12M article — in particular to sort out the car’s complicated styling development — including about 20 additional images.

Two decades before the American-market Escort, Tempo, and Taurus, Ford Motor Company very nearly offered a U.S.

If you’re at all familiar with the Corvair, Chevrolet’s air-cooled, rear-engined six-cylinder compact, you’re almost certainly aware that consumer advocate Ralph Nader famously lambasted it as a “‘one-car’ accident” in his 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed: T…