Wikipedia is a fantastic place to start and has surprisingly good info about individual cars of note like the Toyobaru as well as a lot of principles that make cars go:
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_86"]Toyota 86 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine"]Internal combustion engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_dynamics"]Vehicle dynamics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
Just click on whatever is interesting.
This stuff is dense but almost all of it is useful and almost none of it is wrong:
http://www.autozine.org/technical_sc...ech_index.html