Fact: the human male doesn’t fully realize the concept of self-preservation until the age of 26.

For my whole life, I’ve been a car guy. It started with my first sedan and has continued on year after year. To me, there are few things better than cruising down the highway in your Mustang on a beautiful summer or fall day, windows down, breeze blowing through your hair, music cranked up.

There are fewer things more stressful than driving after dark. Your vision is limited, you’re tired and who knows what sort of wildlife could be roaming around next to the roads?

“Grease monkey” may be a term of endearment, but no one appreciates a hug from a greasy mechanic. If turning wrenches is a regular part of your life, chances are you’ve been exposed to more than a few messy situations.

This year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit had a number of unexpected developments, from a sudden influx of luxury sports coupes to a minivan that somehow became one of the stars of the show.

Unless you’re the proud owner of an extremely vintage vehicle with a tiller or the prototype Saab that used a joystick for steering input, you rely on the trusty guidance mechanism known as the steering wheel when you’re operating your vehicle.

We all love working on our cars, but getting down on the ground to slide underneath them on a creeper can be miserable — and it’s even worse if you don’t have a creeper or a driveway.

Before I get into how to prepare your car for winter weather, you MUST watch this amazing commercial from Mercedes-Benz about just that: winter weather. It’s completely fantastic: Now THAT is a good commercial.

There’s nothing worse for your car than the harsh winter weather, especially if you live in a cold or snowy climate. Road salt might help keep the streets from icing over but it’s also extremely abrasive and destructive to the body and frame of your car.

Being thrust into adulthood on the back of a recession that resulted in scarce job opportunity and low wages caused a butterfly effect in the world’s la