Many of the SUVs and crossovers that you see crowding today's roads have all-wheel drive, but only a select few are true 4x4s ...

It’s not surprising that 4-wheel-drive cars are popular, especially in the USA where off-road adventuring is popular, and weather can vary drastically depending on where you live. Rain, mud, and snow ...

Ferdinand Porsche and his Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid from 1900, called the "Semper Vivus" (Always Alive), was the world's first hybrid car. However, more notably, it was also the first to have a four ...

AWD and 4WD sound similar in name but they are very different AWD is always active on most vehicles while 4WD can be customized depending on the situation A lot of people use the terms four-wheel ...

Some of the terminology you come across in ads for new or used cars is pretty straightforward, like the year, make, model, mileage, and category of the vehicle. However, other terms—specifically, ...

Jack's passion for cars started when Fernando Alonso won his first Formula 1 championship behind the wheel of the blue and yellow R25. Ever since, his enthusiasm for the automotive industry has ...

Many modern and classic 4x4 SUVs and trucks feature part-time 4WD (four-wheel drive), generally with a system which requires an input that the driver can engage at any speed. But is there such a thing ...

The automotive industry tends to use two different terms for vehicles that can send power to all four wheels: four-wheel drive (4WD) and all-wheel drive (AWD). There are mild variations of both, with ...

Full-time four-wheel drive is one of those annoying things that’s great to have until you really need it. At that point it stops working, unless you undo one of the things that lets it work well the ...