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Remember when 100,000 miles felt like the end of the road? Not anymore. These days, most well-maintained cars — especially the good ones like Toyota, Honda, or Lexus — can easily hit 200,0
Most people assume tire dust just… disappears.You drive, the grooves get shallower, you buy new tires, end of story. But what actually happens to that missing rubber is way less tidy &mdash
Most people only think about their car horn when it suddenly sounds embarrassing. Or weak. Or when it doesn’t work at all and the moment for a polite warning turns into awkward eye contact. The
Some transmissions feel like ticking time bombs. Others just keep going, no matter how much power, mileage, or abuse you throw at them. These are the rare gearboxes that earned a reputation for being
If you think scraping your windshield in 10°F feels like suffering, just wait until you hear how early drivers tried to stay warm before car heaters existed. Let’s just say… it wasn&r
Yep — they kinda do.If your daily routine is full of 5-minute errands or school runs down the block, your engine doesn’t love it. Turns out, short trips don’t give your car enoug
Winter driving? Already not fun. But in some states, it’s pure chaos. Ice you can’t see, surprise blizzards, highways packed with semis doing 70 in whiteout conditions — you get the
Most drivers can wait out a snowstorm or detour around a mountain pass. Truckers don’t have that luxury. Big rigs are rolling year-round — snow, ice, wind, whatever.And when winter hit
Manual transmissions are almost extinct in new cars — less than 1% of 2024 models came with a stick. And yet, for the few still holding the clutch, it’s more than just nostalgia. Driving s
There was a time when gasoline wasn’t just bad for the planet — it was literally messing with people’s brains. Back in 1923, the very first gallon of leaded gasoline was sold in Dayt
BMW is apparently thinking it’s a good idea to turn all the screws on their cars into tiny versions of their logo. Yep, you heard that right. Their new patent features heads that divide into fou
Short answer: sometimes yes, sometimes absolutely not. And that’s kind of the whole story.Volkswagen has been around forever. Everyone’s had one, wanted one, or knows someone who swore
V12 engines are already ridiculous. Huge. Expensive. Overcomplicated. Most brands avoid them entirely. Now add a manual transmission and you’re basically talking about something that shouldn&rsq
Traffic lights seem about as simple as it gets. A colored light turns on, drivers react, everyone moves on. But if it were really that simple, traffic lights would actually be a lot harder to read &md
At some point, almost everyone asks the same uncomfortable question: When is it time to stop driving? And the honest answer is… there isn’t a number.Getting older changes things. Reac
Car theft in the U.S. is finally slowing down a bit, which is nice. Fewer cars are getting stolen than last year. But let’s not celebrate too hard — that still means thousands of cars disa
Carbon-ceramic brakes have a great reputation. They’re lighter, handle crazy heat, and usually show up on expensive performance cars. Compared to regular iron brakes, they can cut a lot of wei
Supercars have always played by the same rule: big engine, big noise, big numbers. Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti — they all swear by eight cylinders or more, sometimes way more. In this world, d
Audi talks a lot about the future, but one of the brand’s most defining features is something it figured out decades ago—and never let go. It’s called quattro, and it’s the rea
That taped X across a car’s headlights didn’t start as a fashion statement, a movie reference, or something to show off at Cars & Coffee. It was there for a very real, very practical r
