Kyle Ashdown

We’ve all been there. Pulling up to the pumps, you pretty much know what grade of petrol or diesel you should be putting in your car’s fuel tank. Yet, there’s always the temptation to be rebellious. You may have wanted to fill your tank with premium fuel in the hopes of getting better performance from your Honda Civic; or fill your BMW up with regular fuel to save a bit of money. Is this a good idea? The short answer? No. Use the fuel recommended by your owner’s manual . In order to explain why, let’s take a look at what octane actually does.

Hey CTzens! Over the past couple of months, we have noticed an increase in the number of high-quality, user-generated blog posts in the community. We really enjoy reading them; and we encourage you all to keep up your good, original work! However, we have also noticed an increase in the number of articles that have been plagiarized from other websites. Plagiarism is the act of taking somebody else’s work without their permission and passing it off as their own.

"On this day in 1895, Emile Levassor drives a Panhard et Levassor car with a two-cylinder, 750-rpm, four-horsepower Daimler Phoenix engine over the finish line in the world’s first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about 15 miles per hour." Source: History.com

Victor Edelbrock Jr, whose name will forever be associated with the birth of the aftermarket tuning scene, has passed away at the age of 80

Hello CTzens! This June, we will be having our monthly challenge based out of the Photography and Videography community! Upload your best pictures from any road trip you’ve been on, and you will get the chance to win two keychains of your choice from the Car Throttle Shop!

Our monthly round-up of the best additions to the Car Throttle Garage has delivered once again with some awesome rides owned by CTzens!

This SVT Cobra-engined, manual transmission prototype of the last original Ford Thunderbird has petrolheads dreaming about what could have been

We asked the Car Throttle community to come up with their best Jeep Compass SRT-4 renderings, and this one stood out among all the rest. Jeep, can you please make this a reality?

The story of how negligence, greed, and corporate deception killed over 200 people and one of the automotive industry's longest-lasting partnerships

If Stanford economist Tony Seba's predictions are correct, the death knell is near for the internal combustion engine

We all know that we need to shift gears when the needle hits the redline. But do you know where that magic number is on these cars? Take this quiz to find out!

Use your imagination and graphic design skills to give Jeep's newest compact SUV the SRT treatment!

Speeding tickets might be expensive, but could the technology needed to avoid being caught be even worse on your wallet?

It's been a while since we've done a proper garage round-up, so here are some of our favourite additions from April!

Electric vehicles have been called soulless, expensive, impractical, unsafe, overly complicated and even environmentally hazardous by naysayers. Yet, the inevitable truth is that EVs will be a part of the mainstream in the not-so-distant future. Some countries have even started reading out the last rites to the internal combustion engine. Norway has given new petroleum-powered cars eight years to live; and it’s highly likely that their Scandinavian brethren will follow suit. Tesla Motors is priming to become a hegemony in the automotive industry.

How many of these rather colourful paint names do you know?

In an increasingly cut-throat automotive industry, car manufacturers have formed some unusual alliances with their competitors

With so many amazing submissions, it was nearly impossible for us to choose a winner, but we have...

General Motors is the latest casualty of the unstable economic and political situation in Venezuela

Can you identify which brands these unusual logos belong to?

We asked you to get creative with Ferrari's new V12 superhero, and you did not disappoint!

We've gathered some of the most bizarre facts about cars and their place in history. If you can pass this quiz, you're probably a walking automotive encyclopedia.

With the launch of the new Ferrari 812 Superfast Configurator , you can probably guess what I’ve been up to in the past 20 minutes.