Most common is the chassis dynamometer. It measures a car's output via sensors connected to two or four large rollers spun by the car's wheels.

Bugatti developed a special dynamometer just for its hypercars. The Bugatti Chiron is too fast and powerful for a regular dyno. Dynamometers are a huge part of the testing process for new cars as well ...

Starting engine dynamometer pulls at low rpm is hard on the dyno and hard on the engine. Today, engine dynamometer testing is an integral part of many HOT ROD engine buildups and product tests.

Testing a car on the dynamometer is a common activity for performance car enthusiasts, but strapping a 6,500-lb (2,950-kg) truck on a dyno is a different matter. After much effort to find a suitable ...

Bringing both a hybrid powertrain and a form of all-wheel drive to the Vette lineup for the first time in the Bow Tie sports car’s seven-decade history, the 2024 Chevy Corvette E-Ray offers meteoric ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

With an official output of 1068 horsepower and a top speed of over 230 miles per hour, the new C8-generation Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is a truly ridiculous machine on paper. (And, as we found during our ...

Car vlogger Austin, the gentleman behind the Speed Phenom YouTube channel, took delivery of his Z07-equipped C8 Corvette Z06 on Tuesday morning at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. Some 700 ...

There is only one way to find out for sure. Many Street Stock racing classes limit the ignition to stock-style replacement parts. For most Chevrolet and Ford engines, this means an HEI distributor is ...

Unless you can get your hands on one of the ultra-rare suicide-door examples, the tenth-generation Lincoln Continental was never a particularly cool car. Heck, even with the suicide doors, it's really ...

At the start of any project, we always begin with a dyno run to establish a true factory baseline, and the F56 Mini GP3 is no exception. Before any modifications, it’s important to understand exactly ...