Flipboard 2025 Car Tips

EV charging can save money, but higher insurance and repair costs may eat into those gains. Here’s how to decide whether an electric vehicle still makes financial sense.

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 rental car has four wheels, an automatic transmission and a cupholder roughly the size of a thimble. How different could driving it really be? Very different. Some completely ordinary American driving habits are prohibited across large parts of Europe, and “but everyone does that back home” is not much of a defense.

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.

Bought a used car with the previous owner’s unpaid parking tickets? Learn when you’re responsible, how registration holds work, and what documents can help you dispute old citations successfully quickly.

You are driving home after dark when a lifted pickup appears behind you, and suddenly every mirror in your car seems filled with white light. The driver may not even have the high beams on. A modified truck can create brutal glare simply because its headlights are higher, badly aimed, or no longer working the way the original system was designed to work.

Changing fan speed or clearing a fogging windshield should be nearly automatic, yet some modern cars turn those basic tasks into a hunt through menus. The good news is that physical climate controls have not disappeared, and several current vehicles still prove that screens and real buttons can coexist.

Why does your classic-car insurer want mileage proof when you barely drive the car? Learn how collector insurance mileage limits, usage restrictions, odometer verification, agreed value, and occasional driving typically work.

You bought the car, took the keys, and drove it home. Then you discover the previous owner may still have it sitting inside an app on their phone, complete with connected features. Depending on the vehicle and services involved, that can mean access to information such as the car's location or even remote controls. How common is this? Is there anything you can do about it?