Mini is one of those brands that transcends the automotive world and is now an inherent part of the pop culture with its unique take on life. It all started with the fun little three-door Mini, but the company recently introduced the significantly larger Countryman, which also gained significant traction. And now we have the Aceman, which should fit nicely… Read more…

Long before the hot hatch became Europe’s idea of fun, French rally enthusiasts worshipped a little shoebox called “la Gorde.” In 1964, Renault put a crossflow head onto a rear-mounted engine, dialed in a tail-heavy, pendulum-like handling balance, slapped two white racing stripes over Bleu de France paint, and gave everyday motorists a masterclass in opposite-lock physics. If you mastered… Read more…

Seeing an eight-ton Class 8 commercial tractor haul itself off the line like an angry hot hatch is something you need to experience – otherwise you won’t believe it is possible. For nearly seven years, we have treated the Tesla Semi like a ghost story – a sleek silhouette seen hauling crisps or sitting in the background of earnings calls.… Read more…

Would you believe that the whole saga of ID. Buzz started 25 years ago? I remember looking at the Volkswagen Microbus back in 2001, watching executives promise that Woodstock’s favorite party bus was about to make a comeback. The Microbus then morphed into the ID. Buzz in 2017 as EV fever started to take hold. It took more than two… Read more…

There is almost a visceral sensation when you see average petrol prices at €2.092 a liter and diesel kissing €2.226 a liter – the highest Europe has seen in decades. For our American readers – that’s €8.19 per gallon of diesel, which is about €2.82 more than East Coast residents pay now. Skeptics swore European drivers were literally welded to… Read more…

This is it. The moment has finally arrived when Bentley, known for wood shavings, hand-stitched hides, and the deep-chested burble of a giant V8, has to face the music. That moment even has its own name – the Torcal. It is the fourth model line in Bentley’s portfolio and its very first production electric vehicle. Bentley fans have spent most… Read more…

Who remembers the original Nissan Pixo? Back in 2009, it arrived as a rebadged Suzuki Alto assembled in Delhi: a cheap, bare-bones box powered by a buzzy 1.0-liter three-cylinder engine. It was transport in its purest, least romantic sense – an appliance designed to get budget-conscious commuters from point A to point B without emptying their wallets. Thirteen years after… Read more…

This week has been a proper whirlwind of battery announcements – and the message has never been clearer: you can forget the half-hour charging sessions. We used to tell ourselves that 30 minutes was a reasonable trade-off for zero emissions. It was the price of admission. But in China, it seems nobody got that memo. We heard from Sunwoda about… Read more…

BYD’s Yangwang brand seems to be very busy working on a new luxury executive sedan, which is allegedly internally codenamed Hu. Yangwang is BYD’s premium luxury brand in China, so this makes perfect sense. The upcoming car has been spotted on the streets of China wearing heavy camouflage. As you can see in the images below, it seems quite massive,… Read more…

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Nissan managed to build an executive-length, rear-wheel-drive electric saloon with active road-reading dampers, decent computing brains, and roof-mounted LiDAR – and then sell it for the price of a second-hand hatchback. I had to triple-check my sources, because the cheapest electric Nissan in Europe right now is the bare-bones… Read more…

The original hot hatchback philosophy never had anything to do with raw horsepower – but everything to do with chucking a light, squared-off box through tight city roundabouts. When the BYD Seagull first arrived in early 2023, it captured that exact pocket-sized cheeky essence. It showed up on the scene as a compact, sub-four-meter city car built with a focus… Read more…

Stopping to charge an electric car used to mean a bit of a lifestyle adjustment. You would pull into an empty service station, fight with a cable thick as an anaconda, pray the card reader works, and then pace around for forty-five minutes with the battery slowly seeping in electrons. If you enjoy the open road, the romance of a… Read more…

The Chinese EV market is relentless, chaotic, and can be very tricky to keep track of. A brand debuts on a Monday with world-changing promises, drops two compact crossovers on Wednesday, and rolls out an entirely new sub-brand by Friday morning. But there are exceptions to this rule, and sometimes a manufacturer realizes that approach gets you nowhere really, and… Read more…

Zeekr is rapidly expanding across Europe, its models becoming an increasingly common sight in markets where the brand had virtually no presence just a year ago. That growth reflects the strength of its current lineup, and today we get the chance to test one of its most ambitious models, the Zeekr 7GT Privilege AWD. Table of Contents: Exterior Interior Storage… Read more…

For the past couple of years, Fang Cheng Bao was the brand you associated with squared-off, boulder-crawling plug-in beasts – a sub-brand built specifically to pull wealthy outdoor hobbyists away from their Land Cruisers and Defenders. Yet here we are, watching that off-road-centric outfit park a pair of sleek EVs right in the Xiaomi SU7 and Tesla Model 3’s front… Read more…

As you are sitting inside an EV that packs enough energy to power a suburban semi-detached house for three days straight, run by silicon microchips executing billions of calculations per second, there’s one major problem with it. When you stumble out to the driveway on a freezing morning, the entire rolling supercomputer is stone-cold dead. Why? Because a primitive, 15… Read more…

Waymo has now announced its next destination for its autonomous ride-hailing service: Singapore. This comes after its US expansion, of course, but also its announcements about landing in Tokyo, London, and Munich. In Singapore, Waymo plans to start offering its autonomous ride-hailing service in 2028. Ahead of that, in 2027 trained specialists will drive manually around the city-state, “adapting the… Read more…

If you live in the West, then you’ve been told that building a genuinely compelling, long-range electric vehicle on a budget is about as realistic as finding a unicorn in a supermarket. Legacy automakers blame battery costs, supply chain bottlenecks, and the impossibility of putting modern tech into an affordable footprint. But if you are in Shenzhen (China), BYD will… Read more…

BMW has announced that it’s added a third shift to its plant in Debrecen, Hungary, for the production of the iX3. This comes after the second shift was added in February. So now, the factory is churning out iX3s left and right on a non-stop 24/7 schedule. This represents the fastest production ramp-up for any new BMW Group plant. And… Read more…

History very rarely repeats itself with the exact same script, but sometimes it does rent the same house. Back in the eighties, European and American markets were sweating over Japanese manufacturing, leading to export limits that dictated how many cars could cross oceans. Today, global trade is at it once more – this time the epicenter is Beijing, and the… Read more…