If you're the lucky owner of a car among these 13 brands, you're about to get a brand new feature that takes advantage of ...

A standard car key, left, and a laser cut key, right. If you don’t have Tom’s cut your key, you’ll get a key blank sent to you, which you’ll have to get cut locally.

Figure more than $200, Mr. Albanese warns, “and then each key has to be programmed, because each car is different.” (I recall surreptitiously copying the ignition key for Dad’s Oldsmobile ...

Here’s how to take virtually any car virtually anywhere—safely, reliably, and on a budget of $1,000. For this article, let’s use a Subaru Crosstrek as our archetypal everyperson car.

Of course, digital car keys are very convenient, particularly because you only need facial recognition or a password on your smartphone to lock, unlock, or start your car.