A bright red car, a metallic blue car and a taxi painted the color of a highlighter will normally leave the factory with exactly the same footwear. Black tires. The color seems so inevitable
Whitewall tires have become visual shorthand for a particular kind of motoring glamour. Put them on a long Cadillac with chrome bumpers, tailfins and enough hood to host a family picnic, and the pi
Wash a car in the evening and look through its wheels the next morning. The brake rotors may have turned bright orange. The change can happen quickly enough to feel impossible. The discs looked cle
The car has been washed, rinsed, and dried. From a few steps away, the paint looks spotless. Run a hand across the hood, however, and the surface tells a different story. Instead of feeling slick, it
A dead battery is annoying in any parking space. It becomes considerably more awkward when the car is nose-first inside a garage and the tow truck needs it in Neutral. The brake pedal feels normal.
The reservoir under the hood is sitting close to the minimum line. There is a bottle of brake fluid on the shelf. The obvious response seems to be pouring in enough fluid to bring the level back to &l
There is a very specific kind of rage that only happens at night. A driver is heading home, minding their own business, and then some enormous pickup appears in the rearview mirror. Not even
People will baby a car in all kinds of strange ways. They will buy the fancy gas, wipe dust off the dashboard, stress about tiny paint chips, and somehow still ignore the four things holding the entir
A basic car wash and a proper detail are not the same thing, and anyone who has done both knows it immediately. A wash gets rid of the obvious dirt. A detail makes the car look cared for. The paint
If you’ve been living in California, New York, or any of those "green" states, you’ve probably been staring at the Dodge Durango Hellcat like it was forbidden fruit. For a while