Pop the hood on any modern car, and there's a good chance you won't actually see much of the engine. Instead, you'll find a large molded piece of plastic sitting on top of it, sometimes complete with a giant manufacturer…
Look at two random cars parked next to each other and check out their tires. The tread likely looks completely different. One tire might have big, chunky blocks with deep grooves, while another has a relatively smooth surface covered in narrow…
It’s been just over a year since North Dakota raised the maximum speed limit on select highways to 80 miles per hour, making it one of several states to do so over the past decade. Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and other…
If you've ever started an EV on a freezing morning and wondered where all those missing miles went, you're not imagining it. Electric vehicles can lose a substantial amount of driving range in cold weather, sometimes enough to make a…
If you pull into a gas station in most of America, you already know the routine: park beside the pump, swipe your card, grab the nozzle, and fill up. But cross into New Jersey, and that familiar process suddenly becomes…
If you've ever taken a car to CarMax and wondered how the company arrived at its trade-in number, there's more going on than simply plugging the vehicle's year and mileage into a calculator. CarMax says its appraisal process considers the…
A dead car battery usually means reaching for jumper cables or a portable jump starter. But if you're driving a manual-transmission car, there's another trick that drivers have used for decades: the bump start. Instead of using the battery to…
