It used to be that if you wanted to drive, you had to have the arms for it. Older cars didn’t have power steering, and parking or even turning at low speeds could require a lot of strength to move the ...

Rack-and-pinion steering is one of the Mustang’s greatest engineering refinements ever because it eliminated the slippery slop of antiquated worm and sector steering, enabling you to put your Mustang ...

We know many of you have a new Mustang parked alongside your vintage pony. We do; in addition to our '05 GT, we also have a '69 Mustang in the stable. We enjoy the newer Mustang's excellent handling ...

We spend a great deal of time focusing on the multitude of ways to improve the suspension and chassis on vintage cars since it's by far the best way to increase the overall performance and driving ...

A few straightforward guidelines can help design a better steering system for simple vehicles. For fairly simple, low-performance vehicles such as go-carts, golf carts, toy cars, and wagons, designers ...

Few car parts are as essential to safety and drivability as the steering setup. Most modern vehicles rely on the trusty rack-and-pinion power steering design, and like pretty much anything else, it ...

Freightliner Trucks is the first heavy-duty truck manufacturer to offer rack and pinion steering, a component that until now has been used only in automobiles and light trucks. Offering several ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Aimed at improving several aspects of driving performance, Freightliner Trucks has made available rack and pinion steering for its line of heavy-duty trucks, a component that until ...

None of today’s trucks are exactly primitive, but there’s still rich ground for improvements in some of the fundamental technologies they depend on. Like the chassis, where some very useful suspension ...

Linear motors and ball-screw drives seem to hog the limelight when it comes to linear motion. Rack-and-pinion drives, another type of linear motion device, get no respect. But they are perfectly ...

Remember that unpowered, wood-framed crate you and the neighbor kid built all those years ago? You know, the one with baby buggy wheels, no seat to speak of and a steering system consisting of a loop ...