Instead of a simple, familiar mechanical latch, it’s now common for a car’s exterior door handles to remain flush against the door until the car is unlocked, requiring an electric motor to open. On ...

If you’ve spent as much time browsing car forums as The Drive’s editors have, you’ve likely seen your fair share of dirty vehicles. If not, you’ve probably seen our coverage of some of the more ...

️ Editor's note: This product category requires new testing about once a year, at which point we'll update this article. It's date night. Dry cleaning's in the back, you have a fresh cut, and your ...

If your car door is sounding like a front-loader washing machine, you will no doubt realize you need to drain your car doors. What a lot of car or truck owners don't know is that regularly checking ...

When winter weather gets extreme and temperatures drop, car doors tend to freeze shut because of ice forming on the door, in the doorframe, or within the locking mechanism. In all of these cases, the ...

In some ways, the humble door handles we use to open our vehicles haven’t changed much in over five decades. In others, today’s modern handles represent a leap forward in technology. In the formative ...

Doors that close themselves? It sounds great, but here’s what it’s like to live with ’em. In most cases when a new car's headline feature is described as a "conversation starter," you, the owner, must ...

Model S driver died; how other automakers do latches, and the unusual Model 3 setup. We can’t yet know exactly what happened in this specific case, but it could have been a couple different things.

Not so long ago, car interior lighting consisted of central and side headliner lights, complemented by low-level ambient lighting located mainly in the cockpit area. Now we are seeing LEDs in a ...

Many newer cars have replaced the tried-and-true door handle with complex electronic versions. Here’s how to operate their manual releases in an emergency. Using the electronic door handle in a 2017 ...