A parked car should understand the concept of being parked. The engine is off. The keys are inside the house. The garage has been quiet for hours. Then something beneath the car begins to hu
Replacing windshield wipers used to be one of those jobs that made everyone feel mechanically competent. Lift the arm. Turn the blade. Unclip it. Spend several minutes questioning the little plasti
A turn signal normally keeps a relaxed, predictable beat. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Then, without warning, it sounds as though someone has doubled the tempo. The arrow on the dashboard flashes furiously
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.
Park, Reverse, Neutral and Drive need little introduction. Then there is B. It sits on the shifter of many hybrids looking important but refusing to explain itself. Battery seems like the obvious
It is a cold morning. The windshield is cloudy, the cabin feels like a refrigerator, and the defrost button has just been pressed with all the optimism available before coffee. Then the A/C light come
The Prius C disappeared from American showrooms years ago, but its Japanese cousin is still alive and getting sportier. Toyota has added a GR Sport trim to the facelifted Aqua lineup. Toyota gives
When a Toyota is missing from a dependability ranking, people notice. And when that Toyota is the RAV4, people really notice. Because the RAV4 is not some forgotten niche model hiding in t
A lot of used-car shoppers act like mileage is the whole story. They open a listing, see six digits on the odometer, and mentally move on before they even finish the first photo. Somewhere alon
For some Toyota fans, modern pickups do everything right except the styling. The Renoca Windansea fixes that by wrapping a Tacoma in the unmistakable design cues of a classic 60-series Land Cruiser.&n