For decades, the gauge cluster of a German car was a thing of functional beauty. Clean design placed an emphasis on legibility above all else. In recent years, however, the rise of LCD screens ...

With more and more new-car buyers choosing automatic transmissions over manuals, why do tachometers still have such a large presence on dashboards? The tachometer displays engine speed in revolutions ...

(iSeeCars) – The automotive world has a language all its own, including a wide array of acronyms representing a similarly wide array of technical features and characterizations. In the case of “RPM”, ...

RPM stands for revolutions per minute, and in cars, it measures how many times the engine’s crankshaft makes one full rotation every minute and how many times each piston goes up and down in its ...

Once you've purchased a new tachometer, thoroughly read the instruction manual. Then determine where you want to position the tach. Locating it on top of the dash may work on a race car, but it can be ...

The 2022 Nissan Frontier was unveiled last week and on first impressions, it appears to be far superior to the outgoing model. However, there is one oddity that has caught the attention of some social ...

The level of sophistication attained in automotive instrumentation has come a long way in the annals of history. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the first known use of the term “idiot ...