Changing a car battery used to be one of the cleaner bargains in home mechanics. Remove two terminals, undo the clamp, lift out the old battery and fit the new one. The clock might need resetting a
The usual history of the rearview mirror is wonderfully neat. Ray Harroun entered the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 with a mirror attached to his Marmon Wasp. He drove alone while his competitors
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,
There's real money to be saved by doing your own car maintenance. Oil changes, air filters, wiper blades, bulbs — these are legitimately easy, and the savings are real. A cabin air filter th
There's a specific kind of frustration that comes from walking out to your car in the morning and finding a tire that's low — again. Not flat, just soft. And soft again two days later af
When you buy a used car, you probably check the vehicle history report, poke around the exterior for dents, and maybe take it for a short test drive. That covers a lot of ground. But there is one scam
You're doing 62 mph. Not 58. Not 70. Sixty-two. And that's when the steering wheel starts twitching. Maybe it's subtle at first. Just enough movement that you wonder if yo
You know the moment. You head out to the driveway half-awake, coffee in hand, already mentally late for something, and then you spot it. A dark little puddle sitting under the car like the vehi
To non-car people, rally racing and circuit racing probably look like the same thing. Loud engines. Stickers everywhere. Drivers wearing fireproof pajamas while expensive machinery gets abused at
Brakes scare people. And honestly? Fair enough. You’re dealing with the one system standing between your car and an extremely expensive meeting with the back of somebody else’s SUV.