Dim’s fascination with cars began when he was just six. Born into a family of car enthusiasts and racing drivers, he started learning basic mechanics and driving from an early age. While he loves ...

Would you let Toyota borrow your car for a couple of weeks to run tests on it? From the onset, that might sound a little ominous. But it’s actually common practice for an automaker to test 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 ...

The Dodge Viper and Corvette ZR-1 are two of the most iconic American performance cars ever built. But during this dyno ...

It's a story as old as hot rodding itself. It starts with the sales pitch-"Buy my widget and your engine will gain 50 hp"-and ends with a disappointed customer with a car that sure doesn't feel like ...

The need to measure mechanical power is older than the car itself. Back in the 18th century, mine owners measured how hard a horse could pull. During the Industrial Revolution, engineers expanded on ...

We’ve all been there, right? There’s a modified sports car on Bring a Trailer. It’s supercharged, lowered, and on the right wheels, plus there are the words “dyno verified” in the listing. That gets a ...

The MkIV Toyota Supra is the longstanding king of the tuner car world. As such, unmodified examples of the Japanese sports car command huge premiums and are getting harder to find. Thanks to the team ...

The use of a dyno to measure horsepower and torque is a valuable tool for the racer. If you use the dyno just to see what kind of torque and horsepower numbers your engine is developing, that may be ...

Ford claims 815 horsepower at the crank, but how much of that makes it to the ultra-wide rear tires?

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 ...

The GM performance enthusiast quickly recognized and embraced the benefit of instrumented testing in its ability to extract the most power from an engine. This was in part due to the acceptance of ...