If you’ve bought a new car recently and checked underneath the cargo floor expecting to find a spare tire—we've got bad news. You may have been surprised to find nothing but a tire repair kit or an empty storage compartment.
Spare tires used to be a standard feature on nearly every new vehicle, but more and more automakers have stopped including them. While it might seem like a simple cost-cutting move, there are several reasons why the spare tire has slowly disappeared from new cars.
