text: Do all your legwork finding a good mechanic, the author tells us and she gives us some clues as to how to go about doing that. But having found one, learn to trust that person, she says.
  There is a brief chapter on the car and your environment, which is probably the weakest chapter in the book and ironically enough touted on the cover as "a new chapter on hybrid cars". But its a minor annoyance in an otherwise fun book.