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Renting a Car at Mexico City Airport: What Drivers Should Know Before They Land

Mexico City is one of the great driving bases in the Americas, though not because of driving in the city itself. Within two or three hours of Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX) you have the pyramids at Teotihuacan, colonial Puebla, the silver town of Taxco and the volcano roads around Popocatépetl. A rental car turns those into easy day trips. But MEX is not a pick-up-and-go airport, and drivers used to renting in the US or Europe tend to get caught out by the same handful of things. Know which terminal you are flying through MEX has two terminals, and they are separate buildings that you cannot walk between. Rental desks operate in the arrivals areas of both, and many

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The Weekly Driver Launches Free Engine Reliability Database Backed by 1.2 Million Federal Complaints

The Weekly Driver’s free reliability database gives 1,490 vehicle generations across 52 brands a Reliability score from 1.0 to 10.0. The scores come from 1,205,491 safety complaints owners filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the production counts carmakers report to it, and 7.0 is the average for a vehicle’s class. The tool is open to anyone shopping for a used car, with no subscription, account or manufacturer sponsorship. I score each generation against similar vehicles, meaning the same class at the same age in the same years, and then score every engine inside it the same way. The 2007 through 2011 Toyota Camry scores 4.4. Its owners filed 1,629 engine, transmission and drivetrain complaints against about 2,913

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