Flipboard 2025 Car Tips

Working from home can make car ownership feel surprisingly wasteful. Here’s how to decide whether selling your car would save money—or create more hassle than it solves.

Car companies in the 80s were willing to try almost anything. Some of those ideas were brilliant. Others were strange, complicated, or so unreliable that owners probably wished they had stuck with roll-up windows. Do you remember these?

Flush door handles can improve a vehicle’s appearance and aerodynamics, but ice can turn that sleek design into a frustrating barrier between you and the driver’s seat. Whether they are practical in cold climates depends heavily on the mechanism, the manufacturer’s winter preparation, and how much maintenance an owner is willing to accept.

Bought a plug-in hybrid but rarely charge it? Discover how it compares with a regular hybrid, whether you overpaid, and how to get more value from your vehicle.

Premium fuel can feel like cheap insurance for an expensive car, but after years of paying more at the pump, is it really worth it?

Buying a new vehicle felt like a major upgrade. It came with navigation, smartphone integration, remote features, and driver assistance systems that promised to make every trip easier. Then I discovered the car was also recording far more information about my driving than I ever realized.

I bought a newer car expecting smarter technology, but the voice controls quickly became one of its most frustrating features. Simple requests like changing the temperature or finding a nearby gas station often turn into a string of repeated commands and misunderstandings. It made me wonder why automakers keep replacing reliable buttons with systems that still struggle to understand basic speech.

Paying cash for a vehicle may seem like the easiest way to complete a purchase, but dealerships still have federal and state compliance obligations. In some situations, they must collect additional information or complete government forms. That extra paperwork does not automatically mean you've done anything wrong.