Flipboard 2025 Car Tips

Getting home, plugging in your EV, and going to sleep sounds like the whole point of home charging. So when an apartment building adds a steep hourly fee the moment charging ends, it can feel less like a convenience and more like a trap. The big question is whether those idle fees are reasonable when residents are asleep and cannot practically move their cars at 2 a.m.

Your oversized car charm earned a traffic warning. Here's when police can legally say something hanging from your mirror blocks your view.

Your dashboard rubber duck collection got you pulled over. Here's when those tiny decorations can actually become a driving hazard.

Your car's touchscreen froze and took the defroster with it. Here's why losing this basic function can become a genuine safety problem.

The price was settled. The money was sitting in the bank. All that remained was handing over a check and driving home. Instead, the dealer rejected the payment and started pushing a loan nobody had asked for. That may be perfectly normal—or the moment this deal stopped smelling right.

The sensible question isn't whether SUVs still roll over. It's how much modern technology has reduced the risk and whether the particular SUV you're considering performs well.

Three-row SUVs and minivans can carry similar numbers of passengers on paper, but the way they package those people and everything traveling with them can be dramatically different.

Discover the most expensive repairs on cheap used cars, from transmission failures to engine replacements and EV batteries. Learn which costly problems mechanics warn buyers to watch out for.

You probably don't think about Formula 1 or the Indianapolis 500 when you're driving to the grocery store. But some of the technology helping keep you safe has an unexpectedly glamorous racing history. From better brakes to stronger passenger compartments, motorsport has helped develop and popularize innovations that eventually reached everyday vehicles. Some originated in competition, while others were perfected there before becoming familiar road-car equipment.

Two keys should mean twice the peace of mind. But when one of them refuses to start your newly purchased used car, an apparently minor inconvenience can quickly become an argument over who should pay to make it work.