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Luxury takes on new meaning when one attempts to live out of one’s car and, on road trips, it can be especially tricky to navigate your increasingly shrinking living space. But master a few simple rules of the road and you’ll save both time and money so you can get where you’re going faster—and enjoy the road how it’s meant to be enjoyed: by car. Here, a few suggestions for making the most of your auto-shelter:

Bring along the baby wipes and dryer sheets

The first thing to go on a road trip? That fresh, just-showered scent. Baby wipes are   …  More

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Andy Granatelli, the man who catapulted STP oil company into the consciousness of every IndyCar fan of the 1960s, died today in Santa Barbara, Calif., at the age of 90,

STP-sponsored cars drove to Victory Lane at the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and ’73, in the hands of Mario Andretti and Gordon Johncock respectively. Yet the near misses with the turbine engined STP-Paxton car of Parnelli Jones in ’67 and the similarly powered Lotus 56 of Joe Leonard in ’68 that earned STP just as much press coverage  …  More

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Plug-in electric cars may be cutting-edge technology, but an analysis suggests that most will depreciate more dramatically over five years than their conventional counterparts.

Some of the biggest value gaps involve 2014 models powered only by batteries, entirely without gas engines, according to the analysis performed by Kelley Blue Book at the request of USA TODAY. Examples:

Chevrolet Spark EV:   The little electric is projected   …  More

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