Kids and cars. Most parents just can’t read those words without thinking child safety. September is a good month for that, seemingly as full of reminders as it is: Child Passenger Safety Week and Childhood Injury Prevention Week, National Seat…
For all the talk about how many Americans travel on holidays such as Labor Day – more than 35 million are expected to travel this year – the truth is that 90 percent of us stay close to home. That…
Will you go shopping on Black Friday? No, not the day after Thanksgiving, which still is several months away. But its car-shopping equivalent (according to Fortune magazine): Labor Day, which falls on Sept. 5 this year. “Labor Day means the…
Three mainstream vehicle brands – Volkswagen, MINI and Kia – joined a dozen premium brands in the top 15 of a new-owner survey by J.D. Power. Eight other nameplates rated at or above the average for non-premium brands. General Motors…
Help driving. That’s what drivers want most from new vehicle technology. Vehicles with safety features such as blind-spot monitoring and low-speed collision avoidance appeal to owners much more than similar vehicles without the technologies, according to J.D. Power. And higher…
Fergus. That’s the name we would give our Toyota Highlander. If we were among the nearly half of car owners that name their vehicles (according to namesforcars.com). “The name’s as important as the car because it creates a special bond…