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What Each Type of Car Insurance Actually Covers, in Plain English
Car insurance is a pile of terms that all blur together, right up until the day you actually have to file a claim. Liability, collision, comprehensive, and the rest each guard against completely different risks, and knowing the difference keeps you from leaving dangerous gaps or paying for coverage you’ll never use. Here’s a plain-English…
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Buy or Lease? Here’s How to Actually Decide
Buy or lease is one of the biggest money calls you’ll make on a dealership lot, and there’s no one-size-fits-all answer, it comes down to how you drive and what you care about. Leasing buys you lower payments and a fresh car every few years; buying builds real value and sets you free of payments…
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The Sub-$25,000 New Car Didn’t Just Decline. It Went Extinct.
There used to be a kind of car that didn’t ask much of you. No 15-inch touchscreen begging for a software update, no ambient lighting with dozens of color options, no subscription just to keep the heated seats warm. Crank windows, maybe, or power ones if you were feeling fancy. It cost less than a…
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How Long Tires Really Last, and How to Spot When Yours Are Done
Your tires are the only thing connecting your car to the road, four palm-sized patches of rubber doing all the work, and most of us ignore them until one goes flat. Knowing when they’re past their prime keeps you from blowouts, bad-weather scares, and wasted fuel. Here’s how long tires really last and how to…
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Ends 6/14: Win This 1963 Split-Window Corvette Fuelie Plus $20,000 Cash — Auto Wire Readers Get DOUBLE the Entries!
Some cars you admire from across the room. This one you take home. The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum is giving away a 1963 numbers-matching Split-Window Corvette Fuelie Coupe — the holy grail of Corvettes — plus a cool $20,000 in cash, and right now Auto Wire readers have an edge nobody…
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Your Check Engine Light Isn’t Always a Crisis, But Here’s When to Worry
No dashboard light triggers gut-drop panic quite like the check engine light. The frustrating part: it won’t tell you whether you’ve got a loose gas cap or a dying catalytic converter, just that something’s off. Here’s how to read the situation and what to actually do about it. First, What It’s Even Telling You Your…
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No, GM Didn’t Leak the C9 Corvette. Here’s What Was Actually on That Screen.
The internet decided this week that General Motors had slipped up and leaked the next Corvette. A mysterious sports car flashed across a screen in a GM video, screenshots flew, and suddenly everyone was calling it the C9. It’s a great story. It’s also wrong, and the truth behind that blurry shot is honestly more…
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Thieves Tracked Power Tour Owners to Their Hotels and Stripped the Lot Overnight
The people driving in this year’s Hot Rod Power Tour spent Monday showing off some of the best muscle cars in the country at the Route 66 Raceway. By Tuesday morning, several of them woke up to smashed glass and empty parking spaces. Thieves had followed the cars back to their hotels and gone to…
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Jeep Recalled a Million Wranglers and Gladiators for Fire Risk, and There’s No Fix Yet
Jeep just told more than a million Wrangler and Gladiator owners that their vehicles carry a fire risk, and the part that should worry people most is what the company admitted right alongside it. There is no fix available yet. The recall covers over a million Wranglers and Gladiators. The problem lives in the wiring…
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GM Is Killing Off Its Biggest Silverados, and a Factory Deal Died With Them
Chevrolet is walking away from some of the biggest trucks that wear the Silverado badge, and the timing says a lot about where the medium-duty truck market is heading. GM has decided not to renew its production agreement with International Trucks, and as a result the Silverado 4500HD, 5500HD, and 6500HD will be discontinued this…
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An Uber Passenger Filmed His Tesla Driver Apparently Asleep at Freeway Speed
A rideshare trip on one of Southern California’s busiest freeways turned into something an Orange County passenger felt he had to get on camera. Earlier this year, the customer pulled out his phone and recorded his Uber driver seemingly asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla while the car was moving along the 405 Freeway.…
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Dodge Is Sending the Charger to Europe Right After It Flopped at Home
Dodge is packing up the new Charger and shipping it to Europe, and the timing is what makes the move so strange. This is the same car that just posted some of the ugliest sales numbers in the brand’s recent history at home. So while the announcement reads like a victory lap for an iconic…
