Have you bought a new car in Europe over the last five years? You have probably gone through a showroom experience that felt much like a lecture. Salespeople trying to steer us away from petrol engines and toward battery power, warning that the old ways had an expiry date… For ordinary drivers who do not have a driveway to plug… Read more…

There’s an obvious pattern whenever a carmaker releases a second generation of its cheap-n-cheerful city car. The original model hits the streets as a scrappy, compromised runabout with thin door cards, four seats, and just enough power to keep up with urban traffic. Then a rival builds something slightly bigger for the same money, buyers walk across the street, and… Read more…

Mercedes will start offering its latest MB.Drive Assist Pro autonomous driving system to compatible vehicles in early 2027. The new ADAS got the UNECE clearance for Level 2 autonomous driving, but unlike the Drive Pilot available on the latest EQS, which got a Level 3 approval for certain highways, the MB.Drive Assist Pro will work in urban environments as well… Read more…

When a CEO flies halfway across the world just to hand a single set of car keys to a retail buyer, it rarely has anything to do with customer service. Most of the time, it is a carefully staged photograph designed to convince nervous local dealers and skeptical European leasing companies that the brand is not going to pack up… Read more…

Google is bringing its Personal Intelligence for Gemini to Android Auto. The feature, which was announced back in January, connects your user information from Google’s first-party apps (Search, Photos, Gmail, etc.) and uses that info to give you contextual answers to multi-step questions during conversations. The feature remains optional so you can choose not to activate it if you are… Read more…

The irony of owning an electric car with enough power to outrun most supercars isn’t funny at all – we spend four days out of five stuck behind delivery vans in total gridlock. We love to obsess over Nürburgring lap times, wild zero-to-sixty sprints, and chassis balance on a mountain pass, but most of our miles are spent staring at… Read more…

The legacy of Affalterbach was written in V8 rumble, supercharged whine, and clouds of vaporized rear Michelins. It used to be simple – if you wanted a fast Mercedes SUV, AMG’s recipe was unsubtle: take a practical family car, shoehorn a hand-built twin-turbo V8 beneath the bonnet, stiffen the suspension until your fillings rattled, and let the exhaust wake the… Read more…

Volkswagen debuted the ID.Cross back in July, but only the version with the bigger 52 kWh battery was available so far. The entry-level 37 kWh configuration was expected this fall, and now Volkswagen is delivering. The 52 kWh configuration comes with a more powerful 211 hp front-mounted motor, while the 37 kWh battery can be paired with either a 135… Read more…

XPeng has announced that it’s working on expanding its collaboration with Google to natively integrate the Google Play Store into its EVs. This will power an entirely new in-car app experience, which will start rolling out in early 2027 in over 100 countries. The company says “hundreds of apps” will become available to use in its cars’ infotainment systems, and… Read more…

The Paris Motor Show used to have a knack for launching cars that end up defining a decade. The original Smart City Coupé rolled onto the stand here back in 1998, the Audi A2 arrived a year later as an aluminum-bodied masterpiece of efficiency – both went on to become cult objects long after the accountants had killed them off.… Read more…

Mercedes was the first vehicle manufacturer to receive Level 3 autonomous driving approval in Europe, but there are still a lot of limitations to the functionality. For instance, the vehicle equipped with such ADAS can only reach speeds of up to 95 km/h and only on certain highways. Mercedes calls it Driver Pilot, and it was developed in collaboration with… Read more…

Not all that long ago, automotive startups treated internal combustion like a plague. If you so much as suggested dropping a petrol generator into a skateboard chassis, the EV evangelists would look at you as if you had lost your marbles. But the car market has a brutal way of punishing dogmatic thinking, and this ideological purity has been kicked… Read more…

Nine years is an eternity in the auto world – long enough for a clean-sheet platform to be conceived, engineered, facelifted, and sent to the great scrapheap in the sky. When Elon Musk drove a cherry-red targa out from the back of the electric Semi in late 2017, the brief seemed simple enough: build a gorgeous car that would deliver… Read more…

When the original Alpine A310 was revealed back in 1971 in Dieppe, it was quite a bit of a shock, really. The motorsport scene adored the A110 Berlinette – but the A310 was a sharp, angular wedge that looked like a knife pointed at the heart of the Porsche 911. It was eccentric, and very French, especially once it grew… Read more…

BMW kicked off the production of its Gen6 high-voltage batteries at its Shenyang plant in China. This is the third location for such production, following the factories in Debrecen, Hungary and Strasskirchen, Germany. The facilities are part of the growing Gen6 battery production network, which will eventually expand to Woodruff, USA and San Luis Potosí, Mexico. BMW’s Gen6 batteries are… Read more…

Android Auto 18 beta is now out, and even though there aren’t many changes or new features, the source code reveals the new version lays the groundwork for a massive overhaul. We expect an improved UI and a couple of new features. With the previous Android Auto version, Google introduced the Coolwalk interface that improves navigation and makes information easier… Read more…

At the 2026 Paris Motor Show, Peugeot unveiled two new all-electric concept cars – the RCZ Vision and the E-T16, inspired by the popular models from the company back in the day. Peugeot RCZ Vision concept Let’s start with the RCZ, which brings back the double-bubble roof as a tribute to the original RCZ. Peugeot highlights that the concept vehicle… Read more…

The Paris Motor Show brought us yet another exciting concept. This is the DS F3VER, and, fittingly for DS’ design intent for the future, it’s quite ambitious. The concept measures 4.19 meters long, 1.84 meters wide, and 1.46 meters tall, with a 2.70-meter wheelbase and a 400l boot. The F3VER features a new front-end design with a vertically positioned DS… Read more…

During the 2026 Paris Motor Show, BYD announced that its largest SUV, the Atto 8, is coming to the European market. This is a long, seven-seat EV, which aims to be an alternative to the Kia EV9 and the Hyundai Ioniq 9. It will also be available in the UK after other right-hand-drive countries like Australia receiveing it earlier this… Read more…

The excitement has barely settled at the Paris Expo, and I am already circling XPeng’s latest addition to its growing lineup. Minutes ago, the G9L took its first public bow on European soil, with the pre-production prototype sitting under the spotlights, arriving covered in road grit after a 1,324 km shakedown trek – a flat-out sprint from Magna Steyr’s historic… Read more…