Best and Worst Cities for Drivers

If there is such a thing as automotive nirvana, it’s a place where there’s little traffic, few car thefts, cheap gas, low parking rates and a repair shop on every corner. Those, in fact, are among the 21 metrics upon which the personal finance website WalletHub in Washington, D.C., based its recent list of the most and least driver-friendly cities among the 100 most-populated burgs in the nation. The worst cities, as one might imagine, are large, crowded and cluttered pinnacles of pain for motorists: Washington, D.C.; Detroit; San Francisco; Chicago; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Oakland, Calif.; New York; Seattle; and Boston. On the other side of the spectrum, sleepy, smaller town in the Southwest top the list of best cities for drivers: Scottsdale, Ariz.; Tuscon, Ariz.; Corpus Christi, Texas; Gilbert, Ariz.; Mesa, Ariz.; Chandler, Ariz.; Reno, Nev.; Laredo, Texas; Las Vegas, Nev.; and Tampa, Fla.