A used car with gleaming paint, freshly shampooed carpets, and half a dozen pine-scented air fresheners may look beautifully prepared for sale. Or it may be trying much too hard. Flood-damaged
Park on a slope, move the shifter to P, take a foot off the brake, and most automatic cars will perform a small, familiar shuffle. The body rolls a fraction of an inch, stops with a muted clunk, then
A tire can look almost offensively healthy for its age. The tread grooves are deep. There are no nails in sight. The sidewalls still turn glossy after a wash, and the car has covered so few miles th
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
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
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,
Maserati is taking the GranTurismo racing again, but this time it wants more drivers to get involved. Revealed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Project GT4 previews a customer race car that will ent
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
The new X5 is here, but its coupe-shaped sibling is still missing. With BMW staying quiet about the X6, digital artist Theophilus Chin has filled in the blanks with his own Neue Klasse-inspired design
Bruce McLaren never got to see his road car dream reach production. More than half a century later, McLaren has gone back to his unfinished project and completed it. The result is a newly built M6GT,