Brake fluid is the unseen messenger inside your braking system. Every time you press the pedal, hydraulic pressure travels through this fluid to clamp the brakes at each wheel. If the fluid degrades, ...

Conventional car brakes are built with one thing in mind, the purpose of stopping the car. Since this purpose is essential, a great deal of time and resources were invested in the evolution of such ...

The old saying goes, "It's better to stop short, than not to stop at all." Okay, we just made that up, but it applies perfectly to this story's topic: better brakes. In the past we've shown you how to ...

One of the hardest working parts on a race car is the brakes. Maintenance of this part of our car is often an ongoing affair. Regardless, when the season is over, we need to do an evaluation, removal ...

The process works because liquids are incompressible, and the density remains almost unchanged even during pressure and temperature rises. However, the fluid must retain its properties at all ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

There's an argument to be made for brakes being one of if not the most essential component of your car. Without them, you wouldn't be able to control your car's speed or stop it entirely, at times ...

Since the invention of the automobile more than 100 years ago, just about every part of modern cars has been improved upon or reimagined in some way. One exception are the brakes. Even with ...

Press a pedal and your car stops, but how? The mechanisms that control a vehicle’s brakes are explained in this simple article. Most drivers understand how their brakes work in the simplest of terms: ...

The M8 is about to debut, and BMW just released a bunch of info on the car's new customizable drive modes. In addition to the steering, engine output, suspension, and xDrive power distribution, ...