Flipboard 2025 Car Tips

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.

You already paid for the car. But a growing number of automakers are finding ways to charge drivers again for features and conveniences that previous generations expected to keep using without another bill.

If you leased a car and now don’t need it, the goal is pretty simple: get out with the least amount of money left on the table. The tricky part is that leases are designed to keep you locked in, and the “easy” exit options are often the expensive ones. The good news is you usually have more than one path out.

You climb into a pickup truck that towers over traffic and feels enormous from behind the wheel. But the bed is barely longer than a couch cushion.

Bought a used car with only one key? Discover whether dealerships must provide a spare, your legal rights, replacement costs, and ways to avoid paying hundreds for another key.