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 ...

Leslie from Washington parked her crummy Chrysler K car on a hill one day only to return later and watch it rolling backwards and into a tree. She's sure that she had placed the car in park when she ...

I have a 1980 Toyota Celica ST with a 20R engine that has 98,000 miles on it. I bought it in the mid-1990s with only 30,000 miles from a little old lady who only drove it to church on Sundays. Visit ...

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 ...

Ray Magliozzi is one half of NPR’s show “Car Talk,” a longtime independent repair-shop owner, a Dear Car Talk columnist and a car reviewer on CarTalk.com. When your car breaks, what do you do? Okay, ...