In December 2018, Ford submitted patent application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a Manual Transmission with Electric Clutch. The USPTO published the patent last November, Muscle Cars & Trucks discovered the paperwork this month. What we’re...
Greetings, my fellow Americans. How is everyone doing today? I said, HOW IS EVERYONE DOING TODAY? I’m sorry if we can’t hear each other very well, what with all the beautiful music reverberating off the hills and dales and insides of our skulls. It’s the sound of my...
Fifteen years ago, I wrote my first-ever automotive article under the name Murilee Martin, and it didn’t take me long to start writing about one of my favorite automotive subjects: the junkyard. Before I’d refined my system for documenting discarded...
LONDON — Accelerating sales of electric vehicles have fueled a scramble for nickel, cobalt and lithium, propelling prices of the battery materials to multi-year highs. Phasing out internal combustion engine (ICE) cars in favor of electric vehicles is part of the...
It might seem hard to believe that a car that was briefly produced in the early 1950s could trigger a 21st-century courtroom drama, but that’s what happened with the Jaguar C-type. The lightweight racer enjoyed considerable success in its day, including outright...
