Peter Kinney articles

When you got into your Uber, you expected a normal ride from point A to point B, not an accident. Then weeks or months later, you receive legal papers saying you are being sued for the crash. The good news is that simply being in the car does not automatically make you responsible for anything. But you do need to take the situation seriously and respond the right way.

SUVs dominate American roads for a reason. They offer space, versatility, and increasingly impressive safety technology. From advanced collision-avoidance systems to reinforced passenger cabins, today’s SUVs are built to keep families safe in real-world driving conditions, but only the models below have earned America’s highest safest ratings.

Your car has a leak in the roof after going through an automatic car wash. Is it your insurance, the car wash owner’s liability insurer, or no one at all?

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.