My trick to opening a stuck hood? Pull on the hood-release handle with your right hand while standing outside the open car door and slapping the hood, hard, with an open-palmed left hand. Oh, yeah, it ...

Detroit – For the fourth time, Nissan is recalling hundreds of thousands of midsize cars in the U.S. and Canada to fix a nagging latch problem that may allow the hood fly open while cars are moving.

In a rare “preliminary determination,” the Minister of Transport Canada is about to order Nissan Canada to correct a safety-related defect that affects the hood-latch mechanisms of some Nissan ...