You can read all the manuals and watch hours of video, but nothing beats hands-on wrench-turning experience if you want to get better at understanding how your car works. But cars, tools, and ...

Jacqueline Nanney hasn’t seen the inside of a classroom in about 10 months. But the senior at Maplewood High School in Nashville, Tennessee, is still taking classes to learn how to be an auto mechanic ...

As “Big Name” schools reach out to minority communities (“Syracuse’s Slide,” The Chronicle, October 2), there is bound to arise justifiable suspicion about the quality of such students. After all, ...

The wrench will still have a role to play, but the tool belt for today's auto mechanics is about to expand exponentially. Standard exterior repairs will still be necessary, and cars will still have ...

Auto Mechanic* Job description: Auto mechanics, also known as service technicians, mostly work in the service shop of a dealership or auto repair shop and fix vehicles for drivers by diagnosing and ...

Chaya Milchtein holds a copy of her upcoming book 'Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership.' For a lot of people, learning how to maintain their car and what question to ask their mechanic can be ...

California has accelerated the thirst for electric vehicles, and as the planet warms and tax credits and subsidies continue to flow, the demand for zero-emission vehicles is surging. One report ...

A scrapbook contains photos and articles of the FLathead High School automotive program from the 1950s through the 1970s. The automotive program is celebrating its 75th anniversary during this school ...