When choosing a car’s black number plate holder, it can be compared to brewing a cup of tea; if you do not care enough about the little things, then your end product will not be quite as perfect as you’d hoped it would be.

A car owner does not select a car based on what kind of number plate holder is attached to it. Nobody rushes into a showroom demanding to know what sort of frame is surrounding the registration plate. Yet somehow, when a car looks particularly smart, those little finishing touches are usually doing more work than …

Your car battery does not send calendar invites before it quits, yet it somehow knows the worst possible moment to stage a dramatic exit. Rainy days, being late to school twice in a row. Then your car makes one long, depressed exhaust sound like you’re betrayed.  

Cars for most of us are vehicles to get us from point A to point B (school to home). We discuss the engine design, tyre wear, and fuel efficiency with positive enthusiasm (at the bar with friends) while the humble power plant located underneath the bonnet is simply there storing power like an unassuming …

Your hands do so much during a ride (i.e., managing your throttle and clutch as well as squeezing and signaling) that don’t take for granted how hard your motorcycling gloves work each time you ride! We seem to obsess over things like exhausts, paint finishes, etc., before we even think to second guess the gloves we are using. Let us fix that.…

The air conditioning compressor is the sort of car part that everyone relies on, yet nobody really talks to at parties, which is strange because it is actually a fascinating little chunk of metal once you get to know it. It sits under the bonnet, quietly working hard whenever you choose a temperature that does not feel like the core of the sun. Yet most drivers only think about it when it stops doing its one job, which is usually on the hottest day of the year when you are already running late.…