Peter Kinney articles

You negotiated the trade-in value of your car and drove away with your new vehicle thinking the deal was complete. Then a message arrives from the dealership saying they discovered hidden problems and want to lower the trade-in value or ask you to pay the difference. Naturally, this feels like the dealership is trying to rewrite the deal after the fact. The good news is that it's not hard to tell whether they can legally do that.

In the mid-2000s, General Motors attempted something surprising: Saturn, a brand known mostly for practical economy cars, suddenly unveiled a sleek two-seat sports car. The result was the Saturn Sky, a bold roadster designed to bring excitement and style to a company that had rarely ventured into the sports car world.

You don’t need a professional detailing bay or a $3,000 polish kit to make your car look like it just rolled off the showroom floor. What you do need is the right approach. These cleaning hacks will help you level up your detailing game and get that deep, glossy, professionally finished look.

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?