A scratch appears on your car, and the mind goes straight to the worst case. The whole panel needs repainting. Most of the time, it doesn’t. But figuring out what it actually needs starts with understanding what’s been damaged. Most car owners either overreact, booking a full panel repaint for something a polish would have…

India was supposed to move to E20 petrol by 2030. That timeline was brought forward to 2025–26, and now E20 is already making its way into fuel stations across the country. But what does this shift mean for Indian cars and the people driving them?  E20 is petrol blended with 20 per cent ethanol, compared…

“They don’t make engines like they used to.” Every generation of car enthusiasts has one thing in common: they believe the engines of their era were built better. There’s some truth to that, but not for the reason most people think. Older engines weren’t necessarily stronger or better engineered; they were simply built for a…

Horsepower figures, acceleration times and top speeds often dominate conversations about cars. Yet none of them matters unless a vehicle can shed that speed with the same confidence and precision with which it builds it. As modern cars become quicker, heavier and more capable, the engineering challenge is no longer just making them go faster;…

A modern Formula 1 team can change all four tyres in under 2-3 seconds. That’s roughly the same amount of time it takes to read this sentence. It wasn’t always this way. In the 1950s, a Formula 1 pit stop could take over a minute. Mechanics would gather around the car, refuel it, swap tyres,…

Ever heard of a car without a gearbox? Exactly. Without a gearbox, an engine has nowhere to send its power; it just revs pointlessly while the wheels do nothing. The transmission takes that power and makes it usable, controlling how it’s delivered to the wheels, whether you’re crawling through city traffic at 10 km/h or…