Chilton Tips and Tutorials Archive

Today, we’re going to look at getting started in one of the easiest, cheapest types of competition you can drive your car to the limit in: Autocross. Autocross is a point-to-point time trial event. The basic idea is to navigate a tight, twisting, technical course laid out with orange cones over a...

The last significant paradigm shift to occur in the world of automobiles was the post-WWII ascendancy of the automatic transmission. Automatic transmissions were first introduced in the late 1940s but didn’t come into widespread use until the 1960s. Now, as the second decade of the 21st-century...