Like it or not, first impressions are what really count. It applies to people as much as it applies to cars. If the car fails to spark your interest in the first 30 seconds, it’ll struggle to convince you even with outrageous performance or crazy tricks. If you are buying a car, it has to “zing” with you. And if… Read more…

The Nissan Micra has been a familiar name in urban mobility since the early 1980s, evolving through multiple generations while remaining true to its compact roots. The latest model, internally named K15, introduces perhaps its biggest change yet, becoming fully electric for the first time. Remarkably, despite the industry-wide trend toward ever larger cars, the Micra has consistently remained below… Read more…

We were lucky enough to secure one of the first customer allocations for a BMW iX3 50 xDrive, and over the coming months we will be sharing what it’s actually like to live with. Our iX3 will serve as both a daily commuter and a family car for longer journeys, giving us plenty of opportunities to test it in very… Read more…

In China, the confusing theater of the world’s wildest electric vehicle market, logic seems to have gone on holiday. To survive the bruising price war started by the local automakers, Toyota has set its rulebook on fire, rolled up its sleeves, and delivered the refreshed 2027 bZ5 with a price tag that feels like a misprint. Built under the FAW-Toyota… Read more…

Range Rover announced the new GT last month as the fifth member of the family. The brand revealed at the time that prototypes were completing final global testing wrapped in a camo design. And someone just spotted one of those prototypes “near the Nürburgring”. We can’t verify the location independently, but anyway, here’s the Range Rover GT on the road… Read more…

Every hiker (even a weekend warrior like yours truly) knows the sickening feeling of a false summit. You sweat for hours, legs aching, lungs burning, 100% convinced that the final peak is just over the next ridge – only to climb over it and discover a near-vertical rock face stretching into what feels like the clouds themselves. In the multi-billion-dollar… Read more…

Colin Chapman’s sacred motorsport gospel – “Simplify, then add lightness” – has taken a proper beating in the electric era. Every time I fling a modern, high-voltage missile into a tight hairpin, I can feel the tortured rubber screaming under the mass of it all. We have built remarkable machines with earth-shattering torque, but the dirty secret beneath every carbon-trimmed… Read more…

Remember the $59,990 Cybertruck? Tesla would rather you don’t. This price was the starting point for the Cybertruck for a few days in February before it went up to $69,990. And today Tesla has hiked it again to $74,990. The Premium All-Wheel-Drive Cybertruck has also been made more expensive, from $79,990 to $84,990. Only the Tri-Motor Performance Cybertruck has been… Read more…

Since its debut as a car maker a few years ago with the SU7, Xiaomi has only been selling its vehicles in China. That, however, will change in 2027, when the company has repeatedly promised to launch in Europe. The most recent promise came from Xiaomi President William Lu, who said we should expect the launch to happen in the… Read more…

The quick petrol station stop has always been the elusive holy grail for EV owners. We all know the ritual: pull up to the pump, squeeze the trigger for two minutes, grab some snacks, and head back onto the open road. But electric vehicles, for all their neck-snapping launches and digital trickery, have spent the last decade asking drivers for… Read more…

Small French hatchbacks have always had a knack for punching well above their weight, thumbing their noses at bigger cars while delivering driving joy on a shoestring budget. When Renault resurrected the 5 as a retro-futuristic electric runabout, it felt like someone had finally cracked the code for modern urban motoring. But instead of basking in a flood of design… Read more…

Today, Waymo has announced that it is now “laying the groundwork” for its fully autonomous driverless ride-hailing service in Munich, Germany, “one of the world’s premier hubs for automotive engineering and urban mobility”. “In the coming weeks”, Waymo cars will appear on the streets of Munich. Waymo is taking a “rigorous, phased approach” to its rollout, that starts with manual… Read more…

According to a Dataforce analysis of newly registered vehicles in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and the UK, 25% of all cars sold in July were EVs. In the first seven months of 2026, EV sales were up 37% compared to the same period last year. The most obvious reason why Europeans are flocking to battery-powered vehicles is gas prices.… Read more…

There is a very specific type of arrogance that infects tech executives the moment they master the art of spinning a brushless electric motor. The internal logic seems very simple: if you can make a cordless vacuum cleaner that eats dust bunnies with ruthless efficiency, how hard could it possibly be to build a road-going hypercar? As it turns out,… Read more…

Legacy BMW prestige in China used to mean a throaty straight-six for way too many years. A kidney grille was somehow linked with the assumption that buyers in Shanghai and Beijing would happily pay a hefty badge tax. But the rules of engagement in the world’s biggest EV proving ground have been rewritten, and Munich knows it. With its market… Read more…

XPeng published its financial results for the second quarter of this year with some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the company posted an 8% revenue increase year-over-year, but the net operating loss almost tripled compared to the same period last year. The revenue for Q2 2026 is RMB 19.74 billion ($2.94 billion), which is… Read more…

A recent report claimed Tesla would launch the Cybercab in Austin by the end of this month. It was allegedly an “internal target”, and the company will miss it, but only by a few short days. Tesla has now announced the Cybercab “exclusive access” event for September 3. It’s going to be held in Austin, Texas, where the Cybercab will… Read more…

We used to measure vehicle supremacy in turbo boost and how violently its quad-exhaust barked on downshifts. Today? That battlefield moved from combustion chambers to cleanrooms, with the real dominance decided in nanometers and memory on tap. Xiaomi – a Chinese tech giant that made billions selling smartphones before engineering an electric saloon – has decided that buying driving processors… Read more…

The Mercedes-Benz GLB has been on the market for less than a decade, yet it is already entering its third generation. The original model proved popular thanks to its unique combination of compact dimensions and seven-seat practicality, although it was not without quality concerns. Its electric counterpart, the EQB, also faced criticism for its styling and cabin execution. With the… Read more…

Tesla finally commenced the mass production of its Semi truck in Nevada this year, following its initial introduction all the way back in 2017. And now that the factory has started churning them out, the company seems to have big plans for the Semi. Notably, it’s going to launch it in Europe. The official details will be announced at IAA… Read more…