by Fast Machines | Jun 7, 2017 | Auto News
When Dodge first introduced the 2016 Viper ACR, it revealed the car had broken the lap record at 13 different road courses across America. While that feat is telling of the car’s performance, there’s really only one racetrack where a lap record is truly appreciated:...
by Fast Machines | Jun 7, 2017 | Fast And Dangerous
After years of single-minded focus on developing the technology for automated vehicles, the companies pushing to make self-driving cars a reality are now devoting more attention to the human beings who will ride in them. Over the past six months, both Volvo and Waymo...
by Fast Machines | Jun 7, 2017 | Exterior
WHAT WE LIKE: The 2017 Audi Q7 may weigh more than two and a half tons, but you’d never know it from the driver’s seat. Much of the credit goes to our long-term car’s $4000 adaptive chassis that brings a variable-ride-height air-spring suspension and four-wheel...
by Fast Machines | Jun 7, 2017 | Auto News
Season 2 of The Grand Tour will be available on Amazon Prime sometime in October. In a recent interview on The One Show, James May confirmed the show will return in October, but unfortunately he didn’t share much else. It appears the trio and Amazon Prime are...
by Fast Machines | Jun 7, 2017 | Fast And Dangerous
From the June 2017 issue How, you may wonder, do dynamics engineers determine what kind of hardware to use in a suspension? Here’s the short version: Other people tell them. Engineers must work within the constraints of the basic suspension arrangement dictated by...
