Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, a podcast from the team at Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.

And I'm Andy Orne, an editor with Lifehacker.

And this week we're talking about cars.

Now, if you're anything like me, you know how to drive a car, you know how to rent a car.

You have a vague idea about how a car works, but you're not about to change your own brake pads.

You might not even feel 100% comfortable changing your own tire.

Which is why we're joined today by one of our friends from the world's best car website, Jalabnik,

who lives by the site's motto, drive-free or die.

Welcome, staff writer Kristen Lee.

Hi, really, really happy to be here.

We're happy to have you.

So let's talk about the types of cars that one might have depending on where you live.

I think that living in the city, we think like, okay, a smaller car would be the best car

because that would be the easiest car to park, right?

Like, do you have recommendations for people?

I think having a smaller car for very crowded and aggressive city like New York is definitely an advantage.

I've driven small two-seater convertibles in the city as well as big executive sedans. And I much prefer the small convertible because

you have a lot less to be accountable for when you have a smaller car. So you don't have to be

watching all corners of it always because someone might hit it. And similarly, it's just more

maneuverable. You're a lot dartier in traffic.

I don't know if you guys have driven in New York City traffic before, but it's a lot of just

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