Are remote starters a harmless convenience or an unnecessary gimmick doing real damage to your vehicle?

With these efficient remote starts, you’ll be able to stop bribing your kids to start the car for you in the cold and rain or ungodly heat. How much do you dread having to start your car in the ...

Normally $700(!), this kit can start your car from up to 3,000 feet away. Plus: two sweet USB-related bonus deals. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

When it’s cold enough to form icicles on your eyelashes, or fry an omelette on your car’s hood, a little comfort is appreciated. Whether it’s extreme cold or unbearable heat, nothing helps ease that ...

Car owners who live in places with extreme weather know how terrible it can be to sit in a car surrounded by snow waiting for it to heat up or to sweat in a sauna waiting for your A/C to cool down.

Unless you’re lucky enough to leave your car in a climate-controlled garage, you’ve undoubtedly experienced winter mornings shivering behind your steering wheel while waiting for your car to warm up ...

Temperatures climbed across KELOLAND Monday, but for many vehicle owners, the damage is already done. The bitter cold over ...

From Alexa-equipped Fords to blind spot monitoring, today's cars come with a lot of features, so many, in fact, that it can often be hard to keep up with all of them. Remote start is one of the most ...

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Earlier this month, we broke a story about Toyota locking its key fob remote start function behind a monthly subscription. If owners of certain models aren’t actively enrolled in a larger Toyota ...

To the consternation of some owners, Toyota's remote start key fob functionality requires a paid $8 per month subscription service, The Drive has discovered. The issue only applies to 2018 and later ...

Physical key fobs won't feature a remote start button any longer. But Toyota's Connected Services will still offer the function, for a price. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early ...