Ford has announced that its 2017 Ford GT supercar can reach a top speed of 216 mph – the highest ever for any Ford production vehicle. Back in December, Ford announced that the first street-legal ...

German company RUF developed the Rodeo concept, an all-wheel-drive carbon fiber safari vehicle based on the classic Porsche 911 safari rally car. Alois Ruf, Jr. has a long relationship with the ...

Researchers at the Center for Advanced Die Engineering and Technology at Gifu University and Central Fine Tool Co Ltd. have co-developed a new technology that is expected to reduce vehicle weight.

Lead by their advisor, Antonio Nanni, professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at UM, the students are installing a state of the art monitoring system ...

Composite manufacturing specialists at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) have made what some have called the world’s first reconfigurable carbon composite ...

The University of Maine (UMaine) Advanced Structures and Composites Center received three Guinness World Records for the world’s largest prototype polymer 3D printer, largest solid 3D-printed object, ...

The industry is evolving quickly to meet automotive lightweighting demands. Deadlines are looming for CAFE fuel efficiency standards in the U.S. (54.5 mpg fleet average by 2025) and for Europe’s ...

During the World Human Powered Speed Challenge, vehicle designer and manufacturer Aerovelo broke its own record for the fastest human-powered vehicle ever, going 89.6 mph in an egg-shaped bike known ...

Tethers Unlimited’s “SpiderFab” could address one of the most difficult parts about constructing satellites, space stations or other orbiting objects: getting the materials into space. Most existing ...

After months of extensive testing, the world’s tallest luxury superyacht – known as Sailing Yacht A – has begun its sail from Germany to its new owner, billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, in Russia. In ...

U.S. firm Workhorse has debuted its W-15: the automotive industry’s first electric pickup truck built from the ground up. Other electric pickup trucks have been made in the past, but the W-15 is the ...

Last week, Dallara—the legendary Italian engineering firm that’s developed chassis for IndyCar, Formula One, Formula Three, Formula E, IMSA and a bunch of other racing series—unveiled its first street ...