View post: Amazon Has a Craftsman 24-Piece Mechanics Tool Set on Sale for Just $18 Decades after it patented the modern three-point safety belt—and then offered the patent for free in the interests of ...

In 1959, Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin patented the now-ubiquitous three-point safety belt. This year his company built on that legacy. Its new adaptive restraint system customizes protection (e.g. by ...

There are plenty of reasons for purchasing a Volvo, from sleek Scandinavian design to luxurious interiors and concert hall sound systems — but perhaps at the top of the list lies safety, which has ...

The 2025 Volvo S60 bridges the gap between mass-market and luxury models fairly well, but the midsize sedan has a few downfalls to take into consideration. The 2025 Volvo S60 returns to the dwindling ...

Walking through the Volvo Cars Pioneers in Safety installation at WIRED’s Big Interview event is tantamount to perusing the greatest hits of innovation in automotive safety. Starting with inventing ...

Every engine has a means of coordinating the timing between the valve train and the rest of the engine. Some engines use a timing chain and some a timing belt. A timing belt has the relatively ...

Your car's internal combustion engine requires a massive amount of individual parts to make it run. From the tiniest nuts and bolts to hulking crankshafts and engine blocks, modern motors are composed ...

While electric vehicles may steal the limelight as the Cars of Tomorrow Today, plug-in hybrids are in many ways a better choice for the majority of buyers. The public charging infrastructure remains a ...

Your timing belt makes sure the different parts of your engine move in sync, and if it starts to fail, you’ll want to replace it as soon as possible. But what will that cost? Will your warranty help?

We must first understand what each of these two systems does for a car. They both serve the same purpose, which is to coordinate the movement of the crankshaft as well as the camshaft(s) so that the ...