Category: Articles & Commentaries

Discussions on topics of interest to drivers concerning things they may not understand about their vehicles as well as articles on the future of the auto industry.

We just dropped a new Mercedes Benz video

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Mercedes Benz video We just added a new Mercedes Benz video to our YouTube channel. It is specifically for 2019 and newer GLE and GLS SUVs as well as 2024 and newer G-Class SUVs with a dead key fob battery and in many cases a hidden key hole. These models are the first to use …

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Fisker Customers Get the Pages They Need

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Help for Fisker Customers A good 10 years ago, we put up a dead key fob page for Fisker Karma buyers. The Karma not so famously featured a key hole on the passenger door! The car and the company went nowhere, so we took the page down a few years later. Well, the company resurrected …

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New Honda and Acura EVs Require New Dashboard Symbols for a Very Surprising Reason

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New Dashboard Symbols The introduction of the Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX electric vehicles in 2024 required us to add several new dashboard symbols to the manufacturer’s respective pages. Well, actually, new old symbols. This is because we already had the symbols in play — on pages for General Motors (GM) models! What’s happened is …

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2024 Buick Dashboard Symbols Update Comes with a Shock

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Buick Dashboard Symbols We just finished updating our Buick Dashboard Symbols page, or at least we tried. Generally, updating a manufacturer’s symbols page results in the addition of at least a half a dozen new symbols. This site now hosts over 1,000 symbols and telltales found on instrument panels. In this case, and despite the …

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Reflections on Whether to Lease or Not to Lease Your New Car

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To Lease or Not to Lease I am two months away from turning in my leased Polestar 2 and I have been reflecting on leasing. Hopefully the return process won’t mar this post. Note that this was my first experience with a lease. And note that it turned out that I was both right and …

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EV Charging Etiquette at Public Stations

Charging EVs While Being Considerate We’re not the only ones to speak on this, but we’ve seen too many electric vehicles (EVs) sitting at Level 3 fast charge stations either done charging and blocking a station or charging above 80%, meaning very, very slowly. So it we will add our voice to the chorus of …

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2024 New York International Auto Show Reflections

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Who Showed, Who Didn’t The 2024 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) was notable as much for who still didn’t show up as for what we found on the show floor. Since the pandemic shut down the show for two years, Mercedes-Benz and BMW have yet to reappear. And while Mazda and Mitsubishi made appearances …

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