Pedal go-karts have other advantages too: unlike a conventional go-kart - which may have a rechargeable battery or petrol engine to propel it along - pedal go-karts are cheaper and rather more sedate.

Propulsion is controlled with a foot pedal. Reverse is engaged by pulling back two paddles on the wheel. It's all very intuitive once you sit down. If you can drive a go-kart, you can operate the ...

Go-karts are a huge amount of fun, but often lack the most basic of mechanical conveniences such as a reverse gear. You can’t start a small four-stroke engine in reverse, so their simple chain ...

Some may have started with pedal cars, while others went to go-karts, even midget racers and ... by a 3.8-liter Jaguar XK inline six-cylinder engine with three dual-draft Weber carburetors that ...

True to its name, the Simplex Servi-Cycle is little more than an oversized, motorized bicycle with a tiny, 130cc two-stroke engine. It would remain in production ... The company would continue to sell ...

Go Kart Science are activities where students can apply the physical science concepts that they have learned via Hardware Store Science to an electric go-kart that they have designed and built. There ...

Not all racing games are created equal, and Nightmare Kart aims to prove that in its own ... So, jump into the car editor and go nuts! Seriously, you can build whatever kind of car you want ...

The latest Mini Countryman is the biggest car the company has produced and also one of the most powerful, but what is it like ...

The Mini’s B48 engine is a torquey wonder, easily picking up the 3,000-plus-pound car and flinging it towards the horizon. Flatten the go pedal and ... might here in Go Kart mode are piped ...

Making 220 hp and 248 lb-ft of torque from a BMW-borrowed 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine known as the B48 ... but shifting ...

When it's time to go, the electric motor provides a quick start when the brake pedal is released and the engine restarts. And when full-throttle acceleration is required, the electric motor ...

Think back to the turn of the millennium, when BMW launched the New Mini as a funky little British car. It happened during the tail end of the second British Invasion, whose influence ran the ...