Open the door of an American-market performance car from the early 1980s and something may appear terribly wrong. There is the dramatic driving position, a powerful engine and perhaps a body design
Automatic stop-start has a peculiar talent for irritating drivers both when it works and when it does not. At one traffic light, the engine shuts down the moment the car stops. At the next, it keep
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
The Porsche 718 Boxster and Cayman are gone, and that still feels wrong. Not “the market moved on” wrong. Not “well, it had a good run” wrong. More like Porsche had one of
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.
You can do all the little fuel-saving tricks people love to talk about. Drive gently. Avoid hard stops. Coast downhill when nobody is behind you judging. Maybe even pick the cheaper gas station across
A lot of bad car advice survives because somebody said it with confidence. Maybe it was a dad, an uncle, a neighbor, or the guy at the quick-lube place who slapped a sticker on the windshield and t
When gas gets expensive, most people start hunting for the cheapest station in the area like it is some kind of survival skill. Fair enough. But the annoying truth is that the real savings usually
Fuel economy usually does not get worse all at once. It sneaks up on people. The tank that used to last comfortably through the week suddenly needs filling sooner, then sooner again, and before long i
Start-stop has always been one of those features that splits drivers down the middle. You roll up to a red light, the engine shuts off, and just as you’re about to move again, it kicks back on.