Before the Afternoon Storms Return, Someone Has Done the Wiper Homework

Road & Track has put a field of 2026 windshield wiper blades through a comparative test, running them against rainfall, sleet and the punishment of sustained highway miles to sort out which ones keep the glass clean and keep doing so. For an owner who drives rather than merely stores a good car, the blade is the one piece of rubber that stands between a well-kept windshield and an afternoon squall on the interstate, and it is the part most often forgotten until the first wet week of the season. The magazine's findings are its own, and we have not run the blades ourselves, but the exercise is a useful one for anyone readying a car for a season of real weather.

With reporting from Road & Track.