Got trailer sway? Add more towball mass. Oh, still swaying? Well, add more!
Here's the problem with that advice. You can end up with a trailer that's got an 'ideal' towball mass, whatever that is, and yet it is fundamentally unstable. And…
So there you are, driving your car, cruising along a suburban street, minding your own business. Ahead is another car, a car with a yellow L plate on the back.
You approach a traffic light and it turns red, so the…
A reader watched my video on camping weights and asked this:
Hi Robert. Thanks for such a comprehensive breakdown. Hope you’ve got your thinking cap on and bevvy!
One thing I didn’t see was a clothing weight? What did you allocate each…
So Telsa has set an electric-vehicle lap record at the Nurburging of 7m 35sec, which apparently beats the Porsche Taycan's 7m 42s. However, the Tesla was a proper, observed lap record attempt. Porsche just cracked out a lap so it's valid,…
Ever since 1st January 1997 you've needed a license to tow heavy trailers in the UK. But no longer.
The UK uses the term "MAM", Maximum Authorised Mass - this is the total mass of the towcar and trailer, equivalent to the…
Ford has released a video about what they call NextGenRanger on the new T7 platform. The current Ranger is on the T6 platform and was first released in 2011, working through PX, PX2 and current PX3 versions. So the T7 is a…
The little things count. Sometimes a car is changed, you look at it and think "that's better" but you can't pin down exactly what changed or how. In that case it's probably tiny little changes that you don't notice invidually, but…
Atlis Motor Vehicles is a USA-based startup dedicated to creating a range of fully-electric, ulitity, working vehicles. The specs are impressive - indiviudal wheel drive (IWD), four-wheel-steer, independent air suspension with 300mm+ of ground clearance, 447kW /1627Nm motor, GVM of around 9000kg,…
Back in the day when print and paper ruled the world there was a simple supply chain. Your media company created words and images, then used printers, distributors, newsagents and other outlets to deliver magazines to readers.
All those parts…
Driving is a massively complex task, especially a manual. Even to get into a car and pull away requires a lot of knowledge and skill; how to sit correctly in the car, insert a key (or press a button) to start the…