Five Things to Consider Before You Buy a New Car
Never buy a car on looks alone.
A sexy shell may hide a rough ride - or seats that make your back ache after 15 minutes of driving.
Just as you'd (hopefully) take...
Fixes on the Cheap
Preventive care - and caring for your car yourself - can save you a lot of coin and a lot of hassle.Here are some practical tips to keep your car on...
2011 Jaguar XJ: The Cat Strikes Back
Jaguar is not a company that does parking brake 180s.
The (literally) agelessly elegant XJ sedan, for example, evolved over the years but was still recognizably the same car for almost 40...
The Electric Car Albatross
Electric cars make sense at amusement parks and golf courses - and on the road, if the road is mostly flat, it's nice and warm out (but not too warm) you've...
Whatever Happened to the Spare Tire?
No, not the one around your middle. The one that used to be in your car's trunk.
Most cars (note: passenger cars, not just big trucks and SUVs) used to come...
2011 Nissan Juke
Lots of spunky compact runabouts out there. The inexpensive ones, though, are usually on the slow side - and the ones that aren't (slow) are (expensive).
Except the extremely cool Nissan Juke.
It...
The Little Things that lead to Big Things
The Big Stuff - mass arrests, openly lawless government - necessarily comes after the Little Stuff. When people tolerate the Little Stuff, or lose their capacity to be outraged by it,...
2011 Cadillac CTS-V: Release Your Inner Sheen
Those heavy-breathing '60s muscle cars? Not all that muscular, really. Not compared with what you can get now, anyhow.
This hit me as soon as I read the spec sheet of the...
On Selling Your Old Car…
There's typically 10-20 percent difference between what a dealer will give you for your old vehicle as a trade-in vs. its retail market value - i.e., what you could probably sell...
What Your Dashboard Isn’t Telling You
Televangelists promise to heeea-uhl you if you put your hand up against the TV - but that (usually) doesn't work with your car. The "check engine" light won't go out no...