Fast forward to now, and I find myself having to take my eyes off the road to 1. Find the screen that controls whatever I ...

I do volunteer trail work in the Cascades with a crew. Yesterday, my tire pressure light went on while I was going out to work. I pulled off the road and looked at everything and neither heard nor saw ...

We could have titled this show, "Happenings on Goat Hollow Road", where Ruth and her husband have clearly run out of things to talk about because they are now arguing over the proper way to jumpstart ...

I have a 2020 Toyota Camry Hybrid XLE. Like many cars these days, it has an automatic transmission with an option to shift the gears manually. Sometimes, I forget to shift out of the manual mode and ...

Like Rita from Colorado, many of us have resorted to the 'Arthur Fonzarelli Method'(a precisely measured smack or kick) to 'persuade' an old car to work. But unlike Rita, most of us would only do that ...

Dear Car Talk: I have a 2022 Ford Explorer Platinum with the 3.0-liter twin-turbo V-6. It has 15,000 miles on it. When I start it up cold, it blows a cloud of white smoke out the tailpipes — a very ...

I was going into a small market in the neighborhood recently, and a giant GMC pickup parked right in front of the shop. As I walked by, the owner used the remote key fob to lock the door and a massive ...

Dear Car Talk: I like to keep my cars for as long as possible. Recently, I had to retire a 1996 model. I bought a brand, spanking new 2024! The new car has all types of electronic “improvements.” My ...

DEAR CAR TALK: Recently I drove up to Pike's Peak in Colorado (14,000-foot elevation). On the way down, I had my car in D3, 2, or 1, depending on how steep the grade was. Part way down, an attendant ...

This is the third article in a series reflecting on enduring findings from Audience 98, one of the major studies that helped public radio grow into the significant public service it is today. Doug ...