Whether you're buying your own first car or getting one for your kid, these options have the safety, reliabiliy, and affordability boxes checked.

Dashboard of a car. Image by Tim Sandle. With first-time and young drivers being 2 to 3 times more likely to be involved in crashes than experienced drivers, choosing a reliable vehicle is critical to ...

The Insurance Institute and Consumer Reports ranked 96 of the safest cars for teens. Here's what to know.

For decades, a teen’s first set of wheels was a used Civic, Corolla or maybe a hand-me-down SUV. But in 2025, families are pulling into dealerships with a different ask: an electric car, as cheap as ...

1988 Toyota Corolla. While that wasn’t the vehicle I officially passed my driving test in – that was a rather dreary Ford Ka – it was my daily driver after finally ridding the back bumper of the ...

Trying to get your first car as a new driver can sometimes feel like a rite of passage. You save up, stress over every review, scroll through way too many models, and still end up second-guessing ...

Teens aged 16 and 17 are more than five times as likely to get into an accident when driving than other age groups, which is a scary statistic from a parent’s point of view. So when a teen is ready to ...

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