6 car questions with surprisingly profound answers

We love cars, but there’s a lot we don’t understand about them. And unless you were born with a spanner in your hand and have been wearing grease-stained overalls since you were in diapers, we’re betting that there’s plenty you don’t understand either.

If you’re anything like us, it’s also pretty likely that you’re too afraid to ask a lot of the questions you do have. And don’t kid yourself, surrounding yourself with friends who are equally car mad is only likely to make things worse. “What do you mean you’ve never quite understood how the tranverse cylinder head on camshaft works?” they’ll scoff as they dress the latest wound from fixing whatever vintage wreck they’ve dragged into their garage this month.

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