The good news for would-be pranksters (and victims) is that shoving a banana or potato in a tailpipe is unlikely to cause ...

You know how you're sitting around a camp fire after a long day on the trail, and as you recap the day's events, the group comes up with all sorts of crazy inventions that would make the off-roading ...

When I was a kid, many years ago (wearing my Davy Crockett coonskin cap), my friends and I wondered what would happen if we crammed a potato into the exhaust pipe of a car. We figured the exhaust ...

About three-quarters of the energy produced by a typical combustion engine is lost through heat and released through a car’s exhaust system. But what if some of that heat could be captured and turned ...

An exasperated homeowner turned to Reddit for advice about what steps to take against a neighbor's insufferable behavior. The ...

An allegedly intoxicated woman attending a music festival this past weekend in Minnesota somehow managed to get her head stuck in what looks like a first-generation Chevy Silverado's exhaust tip. The ...

A Minnesota teenager tested the rules of Darwinism on Friday when she ended up getting her head stuck in a truck's oversized tailpipe at a music festival. Firefighters had to use a power saw to free ...

US regulators have issued a sweeping directive to address a longstanding tailpipe problem potentially affecting 41,000 US-registered aircraft with turbocharged reciprocating engines. A proposed ...

The hot Corolla isn’t coming to the UK, but we aren’t sad (much) because we’ve got the fantastic GR Yaris already and the GR86 sports car to look forward to. But what neither of those fine drivers’ ...

This paper explores the extent to which standard dilution tunnel measurements of motor vehicle exhaust particulate matter modify particle number and size. Steady state size distributions made directly ...