Slick surface, hard tires equal unknowns
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Casey Mears knew he was in trouble as soon as he got on the track. His car was difficult to drive and he was sliding all over the asphalt at Lowe&#039;s Motor Speedway.
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A new series of low-speed crash tests shows that fender benders can be wallet busters.
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Getting ready for holiday travel? Besides heavy traffic, you may be facing slick roads, bad visibility, and drunk drivers, enough to make anyone wonder about the safety of their car.
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By Brian Skoloff  Associated Press  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A mile offshore from this city's high- rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor -- a white-walled, steel- belted monument to good intentions gone awry.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Now the idea seems daft. But in the spring of 1972, the dumping of a million or so tires offshore here looked like ecological enlightenment.
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Pat Symonds explains why Friday in Hungary poses particular challenges to drivers and engineers alike.
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Pricing and premium product sales propel the tire maker to higher profits.
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Motorsport.com. Momentum is a funny thing in racing. It&#39;s not something that you can see or hear. It&#39;s not easy to put your finger on exactly when it starts.
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Europe's biggest tire maker Michelin  unveiled an airless tire on Tuesday designed to weather tough  road conditions in fast-growing countries like China and India.
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Crash comes amid safety gains, but also highlights some key problem areas.
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Comment is free: Zoe Williams: Clunky bikes and stiff deposits seem a funny way to start a cycling scheme
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By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 19--At the Liberty Tire Recycling facility in Braddock, shredded  pieces of tires accumulate before being frozen with liquid nitrogen and  smashed into even smaller pieces.
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An experimental tire can sense damage and warn drivers of a potential flat, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, offering the latest advance in "smart" car technology.
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If you want to spot offbeat and unique innovations in snow sports, don't bother searching at an industry trade show or in the pages of some glossy ski magazine. Anything deemed worthy of being slickly marketed is already too close to mainstream to be considered cutting edge.
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LONDON - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne car wash has boosted the performance of one of the two US rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.
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The equipment manufacturer may have hit its peak.
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Checking out the rocks The Mars Rover Opportunity has started its exploration of the Victoria crater. The images it is sending back suggest any previous (or current, but hidden) inhabitants of the red planet had a bit of a thing for crazy paving.â¦