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
Winter rubber mats are excellent at catching snow, salt and the gray slush that somehow finds its way into every corner of a car. The temptation is to place them directly over the carpet mats alrea
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
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
Two thousand horsepower and a gated manual gearbox sounds like the kind of idea that should have been rejected in the first meeting. Hennessey went ahead and built it anyway. The first customer-spec V
Some transmissions are basically automotive cockroaches. Not glamorous. Not exciting. But somehow impossible to kill. Meanwhile, other gearboxes seem to explode emotionally the second yo
The Jeep Avenger has been a success story for the brand in Europe, but it wasn’t perfect. The styling worked, and the powertrain lineup was broad, yet parts of the cabin felt a little too budget
Toyota badges can get weirdly confusing once you start paying attention. For years, TRD was the name people knew. Toyota Racing Development. Simple enough. If a Toyota had a little extra attitu
There’s a weird pattern in the U.S. car market. We stop buying something, automakers kill it, and then a few years later everyone starts asking, “wait… why did we get rid of that?&r