Peter Kinney articles

The Dodge Challenger has always been a big-engine muscle icon, but in 2023 Dodge flipped the whole script with the SRT Demon 170, a production car built explicitly to obliterate acceleration records. With more than 1,000 horsepower, it became the most powerful street-legal muscle car on the planet.

You were in a small accident, but the visible damage doesn’t look too bad. Then the body shop calls and says something that makes your stomach drop: your EV battery may have hidden damage, and replacement could cost thousands of dollars. Now you’re stuck wondering if this is a legitimate safety concern, or are you being steered toward an unnecessary (and wildly expensive) repair?

Sometimes the best ideas arrive before the world is ready. These 20 cars introduced tech, design, or engineering concepts that didn’t immediately catch on, but years later look like clairvoyant leaps into the future.

Car loans are supposed to help you get on the road, not trap you in years of regret. But between confusing paperwork, aggressive finance tactics, and “great monthly payments” that hide ugly math, it’s surprisingly easy to sign a bad deal. The truth is, a car loan can look affordable on the surface while quietly draining your bank account for years. Here are 20 major red flags that your car loan might be working against you instead of for you.

You finally got your EV back from the shop and plug it in at home like you’ve done a hundred times...but suddenly your charger flashes red, throws an error code, or refuses to charge at all. Now you’re wondering: did the shop mess something up, or is your charger just acting up?

You finally picked up your car after an accident repair. You expected to feel relieved but instead, you notice the paint doesn’t quite match in certain light, and one of the body panels doesn’t sit flush like it used to. So, what are your rights here? Can you actually demand that the body shop redo the work, or are you stuck with a repair that looks almost right but not quite?

Proving a repair shop caused a new problem isn’t always easy, but it’s absolutely possible if you handle it the right way from the start.

If you’ve ever wondered how people race cars on literal sheets of ice without spinning into oblivion, welcome to the world of ice racing. It’s part spectacle, part technical motorsport, and all winter mayhem.

When it comes to that old family car, your partner sees a reliable machine that just needs “one more fix”, but you see another repair estimate that could fund a small vacation. So, who’s right?