Travel & Auto

Review Dollar punches well above its rate for weekly car rentals.

Review Ryder aims to fulfill more specialist truck rental needs.

Review VW’s third-generation Touareg is the company’s most advanced and tech-laden production car yet.

Founded in 1900, Firestone is one of the five worldwide tire brands to come out of Akron, Ohio. (Goodyear, General Tire, Cooper and BFGoodrich are the others.)

Viper is such a popular car alarm brand, you can buy decals to put on your window to deter potential thieves. If you want a Viper car alarm, but you don't want to spend $200, the Viper 3400V is a great option.

The Viper 5706V is the most high-end car alarm on the market. Many people buy Viper car alarms because of its brand. Having a Viper decal on your car's window is viewed by many to be an effective, albeit unproven, deterrent. (This explains why you can purchase the decals separately.)

The Viper SmartStart GPS is a car tracker made by one of the most popular car alarm manufacturers, Directed, Inc.

Pyle is known more for manufacturing affordable car speakers, but the Pyle PWD701 is among the most popular car alarms under $50 on the market. As with high-end alarms like the Viper 5706V and Python 5706P, this security system features a six-stage, 120dB siren with a dual-stage sensor.

There are a lot of cheap car alarms on the market, but the Avital 3100LX is one of the best.

FM transmitters aren't the best option, but for stereo's lacking an AUX port, it's the only option. With this in mind, the Nulaxy KM18 is the best Bluetooth FM transmitter I tested, despite having an audio quality far worse than each of the AUX-in Bluetooth adapters, like the Anker SoundSync Drive.

Jabra is one of the biggest and most trusted names in Bluetooth devices, and the Jabra Tour has been around for years. I've reviewed Bluetooth car kits since 2014 and the Tour had already been one of the best Bluetooth car kits for several years.

As an AUX-in Bluetooth car kit, the Kinivo BTC450 is a good option with great signal clarity and above average signal strength.

In past years, the Jabra Freeway was my pick for best Bluetooth car kit because of the superior hands-free call quality.

The TaoTronics TT-BR05 is the simplest Bluetooth car kit I've reviewed. It's plugs into your stereo's AUX port. It has few buttons and no interface. It simply creates a bridge for your phone to stream music through the stereo.

The SoundBot SB360 is very similar to the best Bluetooth car kit overall, the Anker SoundSync Drive, in both price and function. Both are AUX-in Bluetooth adapters of similar size and shape. However, while the audio performance of the SB360 was among the best in my tests, it wasn't elite.

We compared prices for daily and weekly rentals for several different types of vehicles, and National consistently had the highest rates, sometimes nearly double that of lower cost options like Thrifty and Enterprise.

Budget is one of the larger car rental companies we reviewed. It’s owned by the same company as Avis and Payless.

Payless is one of the smaller rental companies we reviewed. It only operates 120 locations across the country, mostly at airports, which is far fewer than other rental companies like Hertz and Avis.

The Cobra RAD 450 is the most basic radar detector that I've reviewed, which is what you'd expect for an affordable radar detector that's around $100. You shouldn’t expect elite range.

The Cobra iRAD is exactly what you'd expect from an affordable radar detector under $150. It doesn’t have elite range. It doesn't have built-in GPS.