For most drivers, the rear defroster button is an afterthought. You jab it on cold mornings, watch the frost melt into streaky rivulets, and then forget about it until the next weather event.

Dear Tom and Ray: I have a great, wonderful, sweet co-worker who might be as wacky as a loon. It was zero degrees Fahrenheit last week, and she refused to use her rear defroster, claiming it would ...

Starting your car and letting it warm up for a few minutes in the wintertime was necessary 50 years ago, but this is no longer the case. You could do more harm than good by taking this approach today, ...