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The Spare Tire Quietly Disappeared From New Cars, and Many Drivers Haven’t Noticed

Here is a mildly alarming experiment: open the trunk of your car and lift the floor. There may be a spare tire under there. There may also be a little black compressor, a bottle of sealant, and a

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Your Parked Car Starts Deteriorating Sooner Than Most Drivers Think

A car can sit unused for several days without concern. Stretch that pause into several weeks, however, and the first signs of neglect may begin to appear. The battery loses charge, the tires remai

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Premium Gas Sounds Better, but Your Car May Be Getting Nothing From It

The word “premium” makes the expensive pump handle sound like the healthier choice. Better fuel, cleaner engine, more power. It is an easy assumption to make, especially when regular,

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Porsche Killed One of the Best Sports Cars It Ever Made, and the Reason Still Hurts

The Porsche 718 Boxster and Cayman are gone, and that still feels wrong. Not “the market moved on” wrong. Not “well, it had a good run” wrong. More like Porsche had one of

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Self-Driving Cars Keep Getting Confused Around Emergency Scenes, and NHTSA Has Finally Had Enough

A self-driving car getting confused in a parking lot is annoying.A self-driving car getting confused near a fire truck, police cruiser, or ambulance is something else entirely.That is

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Car Touchscreens Were Supposed to Make Driving Easier. Now They’re Making Us Look Away for Half a Mile

There was a time when changing the temperature in a car took half a second. You reached down, turned a knob, and somehow civilization survived.Now, in some cars, the same job feels like openin

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Forget Hybrid Power, RUF's New Boxer-Eight Makes Over 1,000 HP

New performance engines are becoming a rare sight, but RUF has just built one from scratch. Called the B8, it's a 4.8-liter twin-turbo boxer-eight producing more than 1,000 hp with zero hybrid hel

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Honda’s First Electric Motorcycle Costs Exactly €10 Less Than a LiveWire

Honda's first electric motorcycle is here, and it has landed €10 ($11) below the LiveWire One. That's either a funny coincidence or some very careful pricing.The WN7 was first shown l

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A Windshield Sunshade Doesn’t Make a Parked Car Cool, But It Absolutely Keeps It From Becoming a Total Nightmare

If you have ever opened your car after it has been sitting in the sun and felt like the heat inside was somehow offended by your return, you already understand why windshield sunshades still exist

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Summer Heat Messes With Your Tire Pressure Faster Than Most Drivers Realize

Most people do not think about their tires until one of them does something rude. A warning light comes on. The car starts feeling strange. A road trip gets interrupted. Something looks low.

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A Parked Car Gets Dangerously Hot Way Faster Than People Think, and Cracking the Windows Barely Does Anything

A lot of people still think a parked car needs a long time to become dangerous in summer. It doesn't. That is the part people keep underestimating. They picture a car slowly getting

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A “Clean” Used Car Can Still Ruin Your Life, and VIN Tracing Is How You Find That Out Before It Does

A used car can look completely fine and still be lying to you. That is the uncomfortable truth behind a lot of “great deals.” The paint shines. The interior smells normal enough. The s

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NASCAR Cars Are Not Slow Now. They’re Just Not Allowed to Be as Scary as They Used to Be

When people ask how fast NASCAR cars actually go, what they usually mean is one of two things. Either they want the big, satisfying number, or they want to know why modern NASCAR somehow 

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If Volkswagen Gets Spun Off From Volkswagen Group, It Would Be Way Bigger Than a Corporate Reshuffle

Volkswagen leaving Volkswagen sounds like a joke somebody makes halfway through a bad business-school case study. But the fact that people are even asking the question tells you how strange t

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The Government Just Took a Real Step Toward Cars With No Driver, No Brake Pedal, and No Pretending Otherwise

For most of car history, one assumption sat underneath everything. There would be a driver.Not just in the vague philosophical sense. Physically. Literally. A person in a seat, looking forward

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This Huge Luxury SUV Loses $52,000 in Five Years, Which Is Great News If You’re the Second Owner

New luxury SUVs have a real talent for making wealthy people feel good and second owners feel smarter.That is especially true when depreciation gets violent.Because there are cars that los

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A Car Wash Membership Only Saves You Money If You Cross This Very Unexciting Threshold

Car wash memberships are one of those things that sound smarter the dirtier your car gets.You sign up in a moment of optimism. Maybe it is winter salt. Maybe it is pollen season. Maybe it is j

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Fuzzy Dice Used to Mean You Had a Bit of a Death Wish. Now They’re Mostly Just Nostalgia

There was a time when fuzzy dice actually meant something.Now they mostly mean the person driving either likes old-school car culture, enjoys ironic throwback accessories, or found them online for

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Why MPG Numbers Quietly Shifted After 2020, and Why It Wasn’t Just the Cars

When people see fuel economy numbers change, the first instinct is usually to blame the car.Maybe the engine got worse. Maybe the transmission tuning changed. Maybe the automaker got sloppy. M

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A Used Car With More Miles Isn’t Always the Worse Buy. Sometimes It’s the Safer One

A lot of people shop for used cars like they are shopping for avocados.They want the freshest-looking one, the lowest number, the cleanest surface, and they assume that if they can just find t

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