Born from EV technology, this electronic brake booster is quietly transforming how vintage performance cars stop—and why vacuum is no longer part of the equation. In the Venn diagram of everything ...

If this isn't your first time around the block building a vintage street machine or muscle car, you know at some point you'll get to the fork in the road where you either make a concession in the ...

GM faces class action over failing brake vacuum pumps in Chevy Equinox, GMC Terrain, Buick Envision. Owners report a sudden loss of power assist.

In the wide, wide world of automotive terminology, there are a number of parts with names that are pretty logical and help to understand how cars work. Slang words aside, like a spider hose, some ...

The vacuum pump allegedly shatters and explodes into the engine.

A new class action lawsuit claims that multiple General Motors SUVs have a dangerous braking defect. Reportedly, vacuum pump failures lead to hard brake pedals. As a result, it causes extended ...

One reason that today's vehicles are the safest in history is that, since 1968, all vehicles come equipped with dual brake systems to ensure that if one set of brakes fails, the other set can still ...

There’s an old expression, “Why stop when you’re having fun,” but when the subject is a 1969 SS396 El Camino that couldn’t stop to save its proverbial soul there wasn’t anything fun about it. Such was ...

In power brake systems, which are found on virtually all vehicles, the brake booster is a component that multiplies the force the driver applies to the brake pedal. If the booster fails, excessive ...