Every year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, better known as the IIHS, publishes its list of the safest new vehic...
Whether you’re storing a dedicated track or fair-weather car for the winter or planning to travel for an extended period of time—and any situation in between—sometimes it’s necessary to store your car long-term. But how do you do that? <...
Infotainment system quality is a major factor for any buyer shopping for a modern car to serve as a daily driver. A well designed infotainment system will ensure that every drive is a seamless experience between driver inputs and media control, ...
Most consumers are content with keeping their vehicles in the same configuration they came from the factory or secondhand owner—that is, stock and unmodified. For enthusiasts however, the itch to modify may...
Just as there are reliable car brands that generally produce vehicles you can depend on to get to 100,000 miles and beyond mostly trouble free, there are simply those that you can’t. Some brands have earned reputations for producing such vehicle...
Every year, the well respected nonprofit organization Consumer Reports ...
Here at Fortem, we generally try to reach as wide an audience as possible with our blog posts. However, sometimes exceptions can be made. Picture this: You’re a Russian oligarch relaxing on your 300-foot s...
Visualize the size of the average credit card or business card—this is the approximate size of the contact patch between a motorcycle’s tires and the road. Then...
Besides certain exceptions such as electric vehicles, the vast majority of vehicles on today’s roads use internal combustion engines (ICE). In ICE vehicles, the combustion of fuel mixed with air occurs insi...
The internal combustion engine is a marvel of engineering; its design hundreds of years old yet its modern iterations powering a multitude of vehicles ranging from automobiles, motorcycles, ships, and even locomotives. ICE power plants have revo...
