The sticker inside the driver’s door says 35 PSI. After an hour on the highway, the dashboard says 39. Four extra pounds of pressure sounds like a problem. The tires were set correctly that morn
There was a time when checking automatic transmission fluid involved a dipstick, a rag, and five minutes under the hood. Now the dipstick has vanished. The filler may be buried beneath the car, the fl
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.
A car that has been sitting in the sun does not feel “warm.” It feels angry. You open the door and get hit with that thick wall of heat that makes the steering wheel untouchable, th
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
A lot of people talk about summer tires the way people talk about hot sauce. They want the most extreme one. The one with the biggest number, the most grip, the most bragging rights, the tire t
It’s a familiar June ritual: fling the door open, slide into a cabin that feels like a pizza oven, spin the temperature knob to Arctic Blast, and floor the fan. Except that routine is the au
Fourteen percent. That’s how far Ford’s May sales slid compared with last year. On paper it looks like a red warning light, 190,000 vehicles that never drove off the lot. Social feeds
A minivan recall never sounds dramatic at first. It sounds like paperwork. A letter in the mail. A service appointment to squeeze in between school pickup, groceries, work, and the 47 other t
The Waymo flood recall might be the most awkward story in self-driving right now, and it just got worse. If you live in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio, your robotaxi is on pause.