The Week in Mother Proof

We’ve all been there: Snaking your way through city streets, driving in circles, then figure-eights, then circles again, searching for a place to park your car. Finally, you spot a car pulling out into the road and rush into place, ready to assume the position they’ve vacated. A couple of perfect parallel-parking maneuvers later, and you’re in. Then you reach for your stash of change to feed the meter … and come up empty.

Well, relief is in sight. The crack staff of Mother Proof brings us word this week of the answer to those parking nightmares, along with a review of Ford’s new Taurus X – essentially the old Freestyle with a new-old name. There’s also some tips on surviving those late-summer road trips with the kids, as well as some musings on that infamous New Car Smell. Check it all out at motherproof.com.

• Relief From Parking Meter Anxiety? 
• 2008 Ford Taurus X Review
• The Psychological Impact of New Car Smell
• Road Trip Survival