Just like the foot bone's connected to the leg bone, it's only natural to think that a car's engine is connected to its rear wheels. This seemingly reasonable assumption would be wrong—at least in ...

Perhaps we should start with the basics of how a converter works. It is essentially a modified fluid coupling that, like a clutch, allows the transmission to be separated from the engine, so the ...

If your engine was directly affixed to a transmission, it would die every time you came to a stop—and that would be a problem. The solution to this issue is a torque converter, a fluid coupling device ...

Torque converters appear to be a bunch of mysterious whirlwind motion inside a spinning shell that transmits an engine's power to the transmission and rear wheels. Although they seem complex, torque ...

Torque converter gearboxes are automatic, but not all automatics are torque converters. Some cars use something called a dual-clutch gearbox, while others use a continuously variable transmission (CVT ...