News and tips related to being an automobile driver and owner
If you thought Memorial Day weekend travel was tough … fasten your seat belt for the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Actually, you should always fasten your seat belt, but you get the idea. Stretching across six days from Thursday,…
Searching for a 1964 Dodge Polara? There’s a good chance you live in Alaska, suggests a survey by ClassicCars.com. In a state-by-state report issued by the website, which specializes in researching and purchase of classic automobiles and trucks, more Alaska…
One in eight. That’s about how many Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, May 25-29, according to AAA Travel. And nearly 90 percent of those 39-plus million will drive to their…
Americans have a vehicle-recall problem. And it’s not necessarily the number of recalls – although that has been rising in recent years. A big problem is that millions of vehicle owners don’t get their vehicles repaired for reasons ranging from…
We’ve given fear of night driving a name. Nyctovehophobia. Now the question is, what do you do if you suffer from this condition? Ford wants you to buy a vehicle with the latest in pre-collision assist with pedestrian-detection technology, starting…
Nyctovehophobia. It’s night driving fear – nycto-veho-phobia. The word is a mash-up – a combination of other actual words, nyctophobia and vehophobia – but the situations that cause it are real. And at least one car company thinks it has…