LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Accuride announced at Heavy-Duty Aftermarket Week that it’s developing a lightweight Gunite brake drum, using patented metal matrix composite (MMC) technology it acquired the rights ...

In military vehicles, weight reduction in structural components translates to greater operational flexibility — the ability to carry more payload, drive more easily over unimproved roads and/or ...

Ahh, racing. Where horsepower is good and weight is evil. Or is it? When you think about it, it's the weight on the tires that gives us traction. In the simple analysis, the friction force (F) between ...

Drum brakes are an OG technology that have been around almost as long as cars have. First developed in 1899, this style of brake can be found on some of the very first automotive prototypes built by ...

Accuride president and CEO Rick Dauch spoke about the company’s recently acquired metal matrix composite technology during a briefing at Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week, explaining the role MMC would play ...

The last time we dropped in on Troy Ladd, he had just started work on his One-Day Coupe. Not a hot rod built in a day—that would be nigh-on impossible—but rather a car built on the one day a week he ...