cars
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The Right Way to Parallel Park, Step-by-Step
2If you don’t regularly drive and park in a dense urban area, parallel parking might fill you with anxiety. Certainly it can be a a challenge for even the most seasoned drivers if they’re used to parking in driveways and parking lots — and while many cars now come equipped with automatic parking systems, it’s…
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Don’t Keep Wipes in Your Car
As a suburban mum, my car is my home base. (Or it was in pre-pandemic times, anyway.) If there was a tiny chance I might need something someday while I was out and about, it lived in the car. Sunscreen? Check. Diapers? A whole case, in the trunk. Wipes? Probably a couple packages. There’s a…
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The Easiest Way To Destroy Your Car’s Manual Transmission
What I wanted to know was simple: how to drive a manual without breaking it, since repairs are expensive. I got a lot of different answers from a lot of different people — some of it seemed to make sense, some didn’t. So I called up a rally champion and got the definitive word on…
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The Worst Cars Of Last Decade
Since the calendar (usually) doesn’t lie, and unless you feel like having that tedious argument about how there was no year 0, we have to accept where we’re at: the start of a new decade. So, let’s do what has to be done, and call out the worst cars of the two thousand teens. Because…