Modern cars surround drivers with digital certainty, yet one of the most basic numbers on the dashboard is quietly biased in your favor. The speedometer is designed to err on the side of reading high, ...

Question: I’m having a problem with intermittent reading on the speedometer of my 2000 Nissan Frontier. Sometimes it reads correctly or jumps around to different readings, or gives me no reading.

Yes, but just a bit. A car measures the rotations of the axle and wheel. The speed is the distance traveled per hour (speedometer reading). The distance traveled (odometer reading) is rotations ...

DETROIT - The speedometer on the Toyota Yaris says the tiny car can go 140 miles per hour. In reality, the bulbous subcompact's 106-horsepower engine and automatic transmission can't push it any ...

Auto Meter's 170 series speedometer is available in three mph ranges: 120, 160 and 200 mph. These electric meters feature a built-in calibration screw, permitting easy adjustment of the needle. This ...