Let’s look at one of the fundamental issues of car buying, manual or automatic? Most of us know about using the right gear for the right speed, but it’s not quite as simple as that, as it also depends on the power required from the engine in any given situation. Many drivers take a view […]
Overtaking, inevitably, often becomes necessary in normal motoring, and it rarely helps your fuel economy, although there are some situations when it actually can ñ such as when it lets you escape from being stuck behind a driver who stops at every roundabout and slows excessively for every slight bend in the road. But overtaking […]
A reader letter, from Mr P.Walsh, in response to my column on preparing for winter motoring in issue 383, creates the subject matter for this month ñ engine pre-heating. For decades (but alas, no longer) the noble British company of Kenlowe offered British motorists the facility of after-fit 3kW coolant heater units, with pumped coolant circulation, […]
It’s not inappropriate to step back and consider the global resources and environmental aspects of power for personal road transport. Back in the 1970s, reserves of crude oil were a big talking point, and the term ìPeak Oilî was coined to represent the unknown future date when world oil production would peak, and thereafter fall […]
Winter has arrived again, by the time you are reading this, or it very soon will, and it brings with it some of the biggest challenges to fuel economy. Once warmed up to their optimum working temperature, diesel and petrol engines actually operate with good efficiency in moderately cool conditions, as the cold intake air […]
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