Justin Pritchard is a seasoned Sudbury, Ontario-based automotive journalist, producer, and technical writer. With a passion for cars and a talent for storytelling, he's established himself as a ...

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Four former employees reopened Rockford’s shuttered Gunite foundry Nov. 20 as Rockford Brake Manufacturing, which poured its first iron and resumed brake drum production after Accuride’s 2024 ...

Most modern cars stopped using drum brakes years ago, adopting disc brakes for their improved performance and heat resistance. Those sound like pretty good reasons, so you'd think they'd be just as ...

As of 2025, the once-ubiquitous humble brake drum has practically faded into obscurity, and fade is a familiar word for most people who have ever driven a drum-braked classic car hard on a twisty ...

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Modern trucks come equipped with advanced technologies, yet many still rely on drum brakes, a design that has been around for more than a century. Drum brakes remain widely used in the trucking ...

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Not even new brake pads can save you from the dreaded soft brake pedal. Maybe you noticed that you still have to press your brake pedal far into the floorboard to stop even after swapping out your ...

Drum brakes are still commonplace on the rear of non-performance vehicles because few vehicles need the additional stopping power provided by rear discs. Modern front disc brakes are sized according ...

In the simplest terms, nearly every modern car on the planet uses disk brakes: a rotor attached to a hub with a caliper with brake pads fixed to the control arm at each wheel. The driver presses the ...