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A Dream Car May Be Hard To Find : NPR

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Auto Production Disrupted By Chip Shortages: A Dream Car May Be Hard To Find : NPR

Automakers around the world, from Japan to Texas, are grappling with a global shortage of computer chips.

Volkswagen sounded the alarm about the growing problem last month. Now more automakers are reporting problems, including a ord plant in Kentucky that shut down temporarily, a Jeep plant in Mexico that extended its holiday shutdown and other factories that are trimming production plans based on their supply of semiconductors.

A Brief History of the Square Steering Wheel | Mac’s Motor City Garage

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Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Square Steering Wheel | Mac’s Motor City Garage

Fairly early in the development of the automobile, pioneer inventors seized upon the steering wheel as an ideal method of controlling a vehicle. (They were borrowing from the marine world, we presume.) But it wasn’t long until creative variations on the theme began to appear—square, rectangular, ovoid shapes. None of them ever caught on, but these unusual forms continue to appear occasionally to this day. Here are just a few examples.

The Chevrolet Bolt Drivetrain Is Incredibly Simple

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The Chevrolet Bolt Drivetrain Is Incredibly Simple

The world of battery electric vehicles might seem like black magic. Electricity turns into motion with the help of controllers and inverters. However, as John Kelly from the WeberAuto YouTube channel explains, EV's are sometimes mechanically simple. Well, at least that's the case for the Chevrolet Bolt. Kelly tackles the Bolt EV’s brilliantly simple drivetrain in the latest video for his WeberAuto YouTube channel.

Electric cars are the future just because they will eventually prove much simpler to build and maintain. Gas motors with their cam shafts and transmissions are such a throw back to an earlier era of pre computers. It's so much easier to manipulate a 3 phase sine wave than have a series of gears and cam shafts to manipulate a gas motor.

One Photo – The 1959 start up of the Chevrolet Corvair | Hemmings

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One Photo: The 1959 start up of the Chevrolet Corvair | Hemmings

The rarest of the rare. That's what's so special about the particular Corvair depicted in this Chevrolet-issued public relations photograph. When the photo was taken, however, it was just a typical production-line image of a new car being assembled. But due to early production changes, modifications were made to the Corvair shortly after it was released to the public that rendered early production models—as this Cascade Green sedan—much sought-after. And it's all because of those three little slots on the front valance.

Jaguar Land Rover Sues to Ban VW Group’s SUV Imports to America

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Jaguar Land Rover Sues to Ban VW Group’s SUV Imports to America

Jaguar Land Rover is apparently very protective of its Terrain Response system, a patented technology that alters the behavior of its cars when driving on pavement, grass, gravel, snow, mud, sand, and rocks. The automaker is so protective, in fact, that it has laid down a challenge to several brands under the Volkswagen umbrella to assert that patent, requesting to block U.S. imports of Porsche, Lamborghini, Audi, and VW SUVs which JLR says are using its technology without permission.