Chapter 23

Your Vehicle

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Official MTO Handbook text

Overview

All motor vehicles on Ontario roads must be registered, insured and maintained to meet certain basic safety standards. If you own a vehicle, you are responsible for making sure it meets the requirements. People who buy and sell vehicles also have certain responsibilities.

- Maintaining your vehicle - Vehicle insurance and registration - Buying or selling a used vehicle - Towing - Test yourself - Sample knowledge test questions

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This is another short intro section, this time framing vehicle ownership as a set of ongoing legal obligations, not a one-time purchase decision: registration, insurance, and maintenance all have to stay current for as long as you own the vehicle. The sub-topics listed here (maintenance, insurance/registration, buying/selling used, towing) are the practical, less glamorous side of driving that new drivers often overlook because the G1 test focuses more on rules-of-the-road behaviour.

Owning a vehicle in Ontario means keeping it registered, insured, and maintained to safety standards — this is the owner's responsibility, not something that happens automatically.
Buying and selling a used vehicle carries its own separate set of responsibilities, covered later in this group of chapters.