Dear Tom and Ray: After driving for 40 years and never having blown an engine or transmission, my husband blew up on a recent road trip (in which I was driving), because after two hours, he noticed ...

As the average American automobile becomes more efficient, more powerful, and more comfortable with every passing year, we become more dissatisfied with those same lagging attributes in our classics.

Ford's Automatic Overdrive (AOD) transmission arrived in 1980 in full-size Fords, Mercurys, and the Lincoln Continental. As the AOD became available in more applications during the 1980s, including ...

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 ...

Innovative approaches to drivetrain design promise more efficient highway cruising. Volvo recently shook up the standard view of how a drivetrain should behave. The truck maker introduced the XE13 ...

Last month, we ran a story ("One-Month Resto") about the trials and tribulations of building a '68 Chevrolet truck in 28 days. After all of the sleepless nights and overworked muscles trying to make ...