News and tips related to being an automobile driver and owner
True exchange at a stoplight in a major U.S. city. “You know you really should stop looking at your phone in the car,” said a teenager to his mother. Then, after she protested, he said, “I’ll hold your phone.” You…
Subaru’s first vehicles were sold in America 50 years ago, but you could say the brand really just arrived here in the past decade. The first car – the Subaru 360 – was small and plain, a far cry from…
Some car companies are introducing a new model. Not models, MODEL. And they’re betting that a healthy number of consumers will buy in. Automakers such as Cadillac, Ford, Volvo and Porsche – and soon Mercedes-Benz and BMW – are going…
Nearly three million trucks. That’s about how many pickups Americans will have purchased by the end of this model year. Led by the Ford F-Series, GM Silverado and Ram pickup, which account for about 70 percent of truck purchases, pickup…
Don’t worry. It will be a long time before your gasoline-powered vehicle is left behind. Unless you move to Norway. Despite what we hear about “accelerating” sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), it will be years, decades really, until we’re…
Everyone has a bad-traffic car story. The worst highway here, the worst city there, the most reckless drivers, well, anywhere. Sometimes we forget the good car driving experiences rather than celebrating them – extraordinary road trip, smooth commute to work,…