The Car Connection‘s Best Car To Buy 2021 awards are coming soon, which means it’s time to turn your attention to the 2021 Driver’s Choice Awards. It’s your opportunity to pick the most luxurious, prettiest, best-performing, and greenest cars, trucks, and crossover SUVs that came out in 2020. As in …
Read More »CBD Products May Not Be as Intoxicant-Free As Drivers Think, DOT Warns
While CBD is legal, the U.S. Department of Transportation has warned commercial drivers that it can show up in a drug test. CBD products are popular and only getting more so, but even though they are labeled as containing no THC, some may actually contain a little of the psychoactive …
Read More »F&I products cater to ride-hail drivers
The coronavirus pandemic has reduced demand for ride-hailing, but experts expect gig driving to thrive long after the crisis. Therideshareguy.com founder Harry Campbell said in late April that many surveyed drivers switched to driving for Instacart and other delivery services. For dealership finance and insurance desks and providers of aftermarket …
Read More »Cheapest Daily Drivers: Window Shop with Car and Driver
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. This episode of our Window Shop with Us series is a little different. Instead of challenging C/D editors to …
Read More »Amid Covid-19 Disruptions, Parents Have Tools to Help Teen Drivers
Thomas BarwickGetty Images Even though the state doesn’t require an on-road test for new teenage drivers right now, that doesn’t mean parents should rush to get them a license. If you have to teach your child to drive right now, being patient and reviewing the basic rules of the road …
Read More »Car-Rental Deals Help Drivers in Pandemic as Companies Struggle
Sean M. HaffeyGetty Images Luxury rentals for as little as $ 33 per day for the month of April are the good news, along with the fact that any car you rent now will probably be extra clean. But with travel way down because of the coronavirus pandemic, airport parking …
Read More »Now Streaming: Backseat Drivers, a New Car Show Starring Kid Drivers
A “family friendly” and commercial-free online channel, Yippee, is now streaming 10 episodes of a car show by and for school-age kids, Backseat Drivers. The three 10-something actors aren’t just back-seat drivers, though; wearing helmets and accompanied by a stunt driver, they actually get to drive. Cars on the show …
Read More »Allstate and other auto insurers giving money back to drivers
Allstate plans to return $ 600 million to auto insurance policyholders over the next two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. “This crisis is pervasive,” Tom Wilson, President and CEO of Allstate, said in a statement on Monday. “Given an unprecedented decline in driving, customers will receive a Shelter-in-Place Payback …
Read More »Review update: The 2020 Lexus ES 300h shelters drivers in the right place
Long-distance journeys may have settled into your mind, in this time of sheltering in place. One day we’ll be able to drive far, far away—and for that day your shopping list could start and begin with the 2020 Lexus ES 300h Ultra Luxury. If you can avoid the lure of …
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