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Pokémon Go: Do’s and Don’ts of Driving
Follow these tips to ensure you’re being responsible and courteous Pokémon Go created something of a frenzy when it debuted more than three years ago. The mobile app was deemed…
2020 Nissan Qashqai Gets Updates and Pricing in Canada
Since the Qashqai is Nissan Canada’s second-best-selling model, it’s no surprise that it received a wealth of tech upgrades for the 2020 model year. Here’s a look at its exciting…
3 Tips For Safely Transporting Plants
Spring is slowly inching closer, which means it is time to ready your garden and spruce up your landscaping. A stop at the garden shop always yields plenty of treasures,…
IIHS Study Confirms That Yes, Blind Spot Monitoring and Lane Departure Warnings Help Prevent Crashes
Automakers have, over the past few years, been feverishly equipping their new vehicles with driver-assist active safety features—some of the basic of which are lane departure warning and blind spot…
2022 GMC Yukon Overview
Photo: GMC The imposing and powerful 2022 Yukon is GMC’s largest SUV. Boasting tough capabilities and large amounts of space for passengers and cargo, the full-size Yukon also presents an…
How to Prevent Sunburn While Driving
With temperatures on the rise, people are wearing fewer clothes. Heavy coats, scarves, boots, and layers have given way to short sleeves, shorter pants, and sandals. And, less clothes equals…
2022 GMC Acadia Overview
A midsize SUV that’s both premium and practical, the 2022 GMC Acadia is designed for convenient and comfortable family hauling. Acadia highlights include a standard package of advanced safety features,…
Dear People Who Shine Your Brights in My Face: You're the Worst
Photo: Lothar Wandtner via CC Growing up in the Midwest, I’ve spent a great deal of time driving down dark country roads. I always appreciated the sense of serenity. Silence…
Cadillac Sponsors the Academy Awards for a Sixth Consecutive Year
Cadillac made quite the splash on the red carpet Photo: Cadillac Last night, Hollywood’s most elite denizens gathered for the 91st Academy Awards. An event this opulent requires an automotive…
Keep Rising: 2019 Cadillac SUVs Ad Airs During Oscars
Rise Above Photo: Cadillac Those watching the 91st Academy Awards ceremony caught the 2019 Cadillac SUVs Rise Above ad. The 60-second commercial promoted the lineup of the XT4, XT5, Escalade…
8 Creative Engagement Proposal Ideas That Involve Cars
If your relationship is getting serious and you want to make an official legal commitment to each other, you’ve gotta start with a meaningful marriage proposal. Now it’s up to…
Toyota Hybrids Stay on the Road Longer Than Any Other Cars
Photo: Toyota A new analysis by iSeeCars.com shows that owners of Toyota hybrids keep their cars longer than owners of any other nameplate. The analysis covered 900,000 used cars from…
Safe Alternatives to Driveway Salt That Won’t Damage Your Car
After an overnight freeze, your driveway can be dangerous to walk and park on if it’s coated in ice. You can easily melt that sheet of slick snow or frozen…
Why Do People Give Their Cars Nicknames?
Photo: Chevrolet As you might expect from someone who writes about cars for a living, I think they’re pretty cool. Often, they seem to have a personality of their own,…
Next-Gen Toyota MR2 Rumored to Involve Porsche or Lotus
2004 Alessandro Volta concept Photo: Toyota Today in the rumor mill… Japanese site Spyder7 claims Toyota is getting ready to revive the MR2. If it wasn’t for Toyota itself making…
Honda Reports There Was No Problem With Alonso’s Car at Spa
Photo: Jake Archibald At the 2017 Belgian Grand Prix yesterday, Fernando Alonso once again retired his McLaren–Honda Formula One car from the race while claiming to have a reliability issue:…
Cruise Automation Reveals Its First Fully-Driverless Car
GM’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Cruise Automation, recently debuted its first 100 percent driverless car. It’s called Cruise Origin. GM intends this model for production sometime in the future. Here’s what…
Which GMC Trucks and SUVs Have the Roomiest Second Rows?
The GMC lineup presents an array of vehicles with roomy second-row space Will you be using your next vehicle to carry passengers? Make sure you know how much room is…
2022 Chevrolet Camaro Gets a Redline Edition
You’ve seen the Redline package on familiar favorites like the Equinox and the Blazer. Now, the sporty accent package is coming to the 2022 Chevrolet Camaro. Here’s what it adds…
40 Countries Will Soon Implement an Automatic Braking Standard
Photo: sanjitbakshi A few years back, 20 carmakers announced a commitment to include automatic braking as a standard feature by 2022. Now, many countries are pushing for standard automatic braking…
Subaru’s 2016 Share the Love Event Has No Limits
The ASPCA is one of four organizations Subaru is including in this year’s Share the Love® event As quite the benevolent automaker, Subaru is unsurprisingly returning this year to host…
2022 Chevrolet Silverado Gains Increased Diesel Towing Capacity
Photo: Chevrolet The recently refreshed 2022 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 boasts a plethora of updates, including a significant boost to its towing capabilities for diesel-powered models. Here’s a look at what’s…
Houston Car Salesman Beat, Kidnapped During Dodge Challenger Test Drive
A Houston car salesman had the scare of his life during a recent test drive A routine test drive was anything but routine earlier this week for one Houston car…
Chevrolet History: A Look Back to the 1990s
Admittedly, the 1990s wasn’t the greatest decade for car design. We think of it as more of a transitional decade that helped all us forget what was an even worse…
2017 Chevy Bolt EV Topped Best Used Electric Cars List
The 2017 Bolt EV Photo: Chevrolet Electric vehicles tend to cost more than their gas-powered counterparts, and this is why it’s often worth buying used if you’re looking to make…
2022 Cadillac Escalade Overview
The 2022 Cadillac Escalade features two different personas for customers, the Premium Luxury (Right) and Sport. Photo: Cadillac As the flagship SUV of the brand’s lineup, it’s only natural that…
Car-Sploitation Film Review: ‘Checkered Flag or Crash’ (1977)
A racing flag or a billowing chess board? You decide… Photo: Picudio via CC In the wide world of car-themed movies, stories about off-road racing are surprisingly prevalent. These films…
Watch Jay Leno Mouth-Breathe and Squint at the Wheel of the 2019 Mustang Bullitt and Original Bullitt Mustang Hero Car
You just knew—just had to know—that the very second that the 1968 Ford Mustang GT hero car driven by Steve McQueen in the film Bullitt emerged from the barn in…
Chevy Reveals New 2017 Camaro for NASCAR XFINITY Series
Photo: General Motors As Chevy celebrates the 50th birthday of the Camaro, the Bowtie brand has revealed the car that will be running for Chevy in the NASCAR XFINITY Series…
Ford Exec: There's No Market for V6 Ranger Raptor (Outside the United States)
The fact that it’s been seen around Michigan in a left-hand-drive configuration — and in close vicinity of a McDonald’s, no less — seems to suggest that the Ford Ranger…
Jeep Beach Orchestrates World’s Largest Jeep Parade
Jeep Beach Orchestrates World’s Largest Jeep Parade Photo: FCA Hot off the wheels of Ram Trucks’ world record for longest parade of pickup trucks, Jeep Beach, a Jeep lover/charity organization,…
Jeep Wrangler and Renegade Release Beach-Themed Editions
Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Renegade Islander Special Editions Photo: FCA Two new special editions from Jeep will make you feel as if you’ve escaped to a tropical island even if…
Honda Reveals All-New 2022 Civic on Twitch
Photo: Honda Honda revealed the all-new 2022 Civic on Twitch, the popular live streaming platform. It showed off the upcoming car in its prototype form, featuring a fresh exterior design…
Toyota is Bringing Hydrogen to Motorsports
Photo: Toyota Toyota has recently been one of the world’s biggest proponents of hydrogen fuel, and the automaker is certainly putting its money where its mouth is. After developing hydrogen…
2023 Corvette Z06 Raises Money for Operation Homefront
Photo: Chevrolet By auctioning off the very first 70th Anniversary Edition 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, Chevrolet recently raised $3.6 million on behalf of Operation Homefront. This record-breaking surpassed the Barrett-Jackson…
How to Prepare Your Diesel Truck for Winter
2020 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 diesel Photo: Chevrolet If you drive a diesel truck, there are a handful of maintenance tasks to complete before winter arrives. Here are five items to…
Differences Between the 2022 Silverado 1500 LTD and the 2022 Silverado 1500
The 2022 Silverado ZR2 Photo: Chevrolet Probably more than a few shoppers have been confused by the fact that Chevrolet has released the 2022 Silverado 1500 LTD alongside the upcoming…