No, you are not. First of all, engins wear out not because of max accelleration or high rpm or something, but to 99 percent because of COLD STARTS. Yes, you read this right: It’s the cold starts, which kill engines prematurely. If you keep starting an shutting down an engine without giving it a chance to properly heat…

All-in-all, a car’s average speed is about 35 mph during it’s lifetime - a little more in the country, a little less in a big city. From there you can calculate the average running hours of a car. With 700 K miles, the engine will have run approx. 2000 hours - which, coincidentially, is exactly the…

The world needs a racing series for just that. I’m for an open sportscars championship. Limit the tires, the aerodynamics, give it air restrictors and a minimum weight limit, and leave everythin else to competition. If you want to race a twostroke engine: Fine. If you want to run a turbosupercharged Diesel: Great. If…

No shit: one of my grand uncles, after whom I was named, used to race a supercharged DKW-bike in the german motorcycle championship in the early 1950s. When his money ran out, he grabbed a shotgun and tried to rob the local bank - alas, to no avail. Grand uncle Michael spent the rest of his days first in jail and…

The same stupid thinking and kind of advertisements killed off the british motorcycle industry during the 1960ies - which once was the biggest motorcycle industry in the world...

Correct. And THIS is the MOTHER of all W-shaped engines: The Napier Lion.

Maldonado was clandestinely replaced by Top Gear’s The Stig. Next, James May will take Kimi Raikkonen’s seat, and Richard Hammond will swap seats with Alonso, while recently renamed “Forced India” finally bowed to BBC’s pressure to build an oversized F1-car for Jeremy Clarkson in order to fulfill the secret protocol…

I’m sure there must be a competition going on between car designers and engineers spanning the whole motor industry, about who’s able to design and incorporate an oilfilter, which is TOTALLY, COMPLETELY impossible to remove for a human being. My actual favorite is the Lancia Delda HF integrale. It’s oilfilter is…

I’d always go for the metal cover. It looks mean. Maybe just painted in the car’s own colour, or anodized in gold.

AdBlue basically is liquid urea with a nice touch of urinal-cake blue. So you could as well pee into your windshield washer tank and hook it up to your turbo inlet. But don’t blame me for the resulting, very “manly” stench from your exhaust...

WRC engines and the WTCC engines are virtually identical today already. Since that regulation kicked in in 2014 - allegedly, to help manufacturers save money and create more equality among teams - Citroen, who has a long, victorious history in WRC and had a perfectly developed engine at hand when the rules changed,…

That’s my sentiment, too: Limit the engines’ displacement, the specification of the fuel they may use, the dry weight of the cars and the safety-standards they have to adhere to. Also, cut back on electronics beyond engine management. But that’s it. Everything else should be left to the discretion of the constructors…

Dani Pedrosa is still very famous in his home country Spain, and Dorna, the corporation running MotoGP, is based in Spain, too. Case closed.

For the first time since I was a boy of two years and could utter the word “Moto” when I saw a motorcycle, this year’s airings of Motorcycle Grand Prix-races by Eurosport Germany are not being shown on free-TV anymore, but only on Pay-TV and cable, with one or two exceptions to soothe the anger of the unwashed masses.…

And mine too. Cosworth rules. A very convenient feature of all Cossie- 4-cylinder heads is that Cosworth strongly relied on theiy modular system during te 1970 to 1990ies. Therefore the Garret-turbo and FI of the Ford Sierra Cosworth should match this engine with minor adjustments only. I’d say 300 turbo HP from a…

I beg to differ. If you feel fear for your bike - even if it's only a teensy weensy tiny bit - it's not you ruling over your bike, but the bike ruling over you. And that's about the worst thing which can happen to a motorcyclist. Riding a motorcycle is all about being 100 percent in control over the bike, the road,…

The open side panels - or, rather, the lack of anything resembling side panels at all - is a serious drawback. It completely devastates the otherwise quite promising aerodynamics. Just for achieving a certain, if already outdated look, you'll lose in excess of 20 mph just by omitting proper, flush side panels. I…