It can be tricky to dyno test an all-wheel-drive electric vehicle, especially one as big as the Ford F-150 Lightning. The Texas Truck Channel on YouTube called every dyno shop within 1,000 miles of ...

The S58 twin-turbocharged engine in the all-new M3 and M4 is downright impressive on paper. Thanks to a dyno run published by IND Distribution on Facebook, we also know that BMW has underrated it ...

In our "Dynos Lie, Dyno Dash" article in the June 2003 issue, we proved that the readouts of the same 350Z on different brands of dynos can vary greatly. Now we'll uncover tricks that can be used to ...

It's not often that you reveal the punch line in the opening paragraph of a story, but this is one of those rare occasions. While there is still no substitute for real-world track testing, chassis ...

One of the most common ways of measuring a diesel truck’s horsepower and torque is running it on a chassis dynamometer, known as a dyno, for short. Perhaps the simplest type of dyno is an inertia dyno ...

Trying to run modern vehicles, with all their safety systems on a dyno is not easy if the vehicle in question doesn’t have a dedicated dyno mode. This is required in order to be able to run the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A very good friend of mine, noted engine guru, and PHR contributor David Vizard, was once being queried about some aspect of engine theory. The interesting part of the exchange was when the fellow ...