In the mid-1990s, in an effort to improve customer service, satisfy government regulators and to reduce warranty costs, car manufacturers started to produce ECUs with the ability to be reprogrammed or ...

Picture the scene. It is 1938. A group of hot rods have gathered on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Lots of folks are fiddling with tuned Ford V8 hot rods. A man, brandishing a megaphone, says: “One day we ...

Shiv Pathak always wanted to tune ECUs. “I didn’t like anything, didn’t like finance, didn’t like the stupid sales job I had, all I knew was I liked tuning my little Miata.” “For ECU programming, you ...

UPDATE: Mazda USA spokesperson Beverly Braga confirmed that this is a voluntary recall, and that the issue entails, “the control program that is designed to protect the capacitor [is] reacting hyper ...