Not a month after we got our Tesla Model 3, my wife and I were faced with a serious problem. The driver-side corner of the car’s front bumper had made intimate contact with our brick garage. My heart ...

DETROITDETROIT — None of the six most-popular midsize sedans earned a top rating in bumper safety in the latest crash tests performed by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Mazda 6 was the ...

One of the defining characteristics of the later C3 Corvettes is the molded bumper cover. In fact, the move away from traditional chrome in favor of molded urethane proved to be a major change, one ...

Cars from the late-1970s and -1980s are becoming more popular builds among enthusiasts, and that's why we thought the time was right to take on a late second-gen Camaro as a project car. This era of ...

Replacement bumper covers can cost more than $1,000. But dents in the soft plastic bumper covers on cars and SUVs can often be smoothed out at home by applying heat and a little elbow grease. It takes ...

Chrome bumpers made a quick exit from the automotive scene in the late 1980s. In their place are elaborate but flimsy plastic covers hiding stamped steel impact beams—with a swath of Styrofoam ...

While technology in new cars can help keep you safer on the road, it can drive up repair costs by thousands of dollars, a new study shows. Rates.ca, a financial rate comparison site, compared the ...

Federal safety regulations — not just corporate cost-cutting — drove the shift from steel bumpers to plastic fascias in the 1970s and 1980s. Modern plastic bumpers hide a sensor-laden support ...