Guangzhou at dusk is a definition of anarchy – electric mopeds fly in all directions, and beat-up delivery vans cut across three lanes without warning. If you ever wanted an autonomous vehicle test ground, the heart of southern China is the best place for it. This is where Xpeng has chosen to kick off an invite-only pilot for its commercial… Read more…

The ID.4 was first released back in 2020, and it quickly became a popular model, especially in the US, where people really like their crossovers. But some inherent teething problems still plagued the user experience. Volkswagen, determined to right its wrongs, now introduces the ID.Tiguan to replace the old ID.4 and fixes many, if not all, of the issues the… Read more…

Way back in 1961, Pierre Dreyfus handed his Renault engineers quite an interesting brief for the original 4L: build a “blue jeans car.” He meant an honest, functional tool meant for everyone from shopkeepers to farmers. The original was never designed to be precious. It wasn’t built to flatter egos. Fast-forward to the upcoming 2026 Paris Motor Show, and Renault… Read more…

Xiaomi launched its SkyNomad N90 and SkyNomad N70 EREVs in China last month, with pre-orders having started at the end of July. The company has now announced that it’s already secured over 70,000 locked-in orders for the two models in just one month from the launch. Xiaomi delivered over 10,000 SkyNomad vehicles in September, helping drive its total car delivery… Read more…

Back in August at the Chengdu Auto Show, BYD first showed the upcoming third-generation Tang SUV, and today the brand has decided to unveil its interior. The five-seat SUV is scheduled to launch in China before the end of this year, joining the Great Tang (Da Tang) in its roster to create a dual-flagship SUV lineup in the Dynasty series.… Read more…

The BMW iX3 debuted the Neue Klasse platform for BMW and it just got its most powerful version yet. After the iX3 40 with one motor, the iX3 40 xDrive and the 50 xDrive all-wheel-drive versions BMW now adds an M edition. The sporty iX3 M60 xDrive will be available in the configurator in January next year, shortly before the… Read more…

Lucid delayed its Cosmos a few months ago. It was supposed to come out this year, but now it’s pushed back to 2027. Despite the delay, testing is still underway, as indicated by the images you can see below, which show a Cosmos prototype on the streets of California, wearing a hefty amount of camouflage. Lucid Cosmos on the roads… Read more…

BMW just announced the new iX4 coupe crossover, offering very similar dimensions and specs to the iX3, but with an SUV Coupe body, enabling better aerodynamics and longer range. The iX40 will launch in two variants in Europe – iX4 40 xDrive and iX4 50 xDrive, with only the latter available in the US. The release time frame is sometime… Read more…

The BMW iX3 Neue Klasse has been a great car for me so far: smooth, efficient and comfortable. Two months in, though, there are a few things I still haven’t got used to and still find very irritating. All steering wheels should be round I deliberately chose the roundest steering wheel BMW offers because I already suspected the unusual shape… Read more…

The electric vehicle transition used to feel like an exclusive club with entry needing a second mortgage. Real enthusiasts, who appreciate the joy of a sorted chassis and modest dimensions, were largely left out in the cold. But this year has been different, with more and more truly affordable EVs finally arriving in the showrooms. Hyundai is one of the… Read more…

Many, many years ago, Sir William Lyons famously declared that a Jaguar should be “a copy of nothing,” an ethos that gave birth to the legendary 1961 Geneva unveiling of the E-Type. It was a car so jaw-dropping that Enzo Ferrari called it the most beautiful car ever made. But for the better part of this century, Coventry lost that… Read more…

Lucid has revealed that it produced 2,954 vehicles during the third quarter of the year (July-September), and delivered 3,806 cars. Deliveries exceeded production because the company continued to execute its planned inventory reduction strategy, converting existing stock into customer deliveries. This strategy was announced before, with Lucid targeting a $1.4 billion improvement in cash flow this year. The company says… Read more…

Mercedes announced the EQS refresh back in April this year with a steer-by-wire optional feature, but little details were given at the time. The company only promised the futuristic steering wheel a few months after the release. Well, now, you can order the EQS at an additional cost of €2,500. The €2,500 price tag doesn’t give you only the futuristic-looking… Read more…

Back in 1984, Renault and the skunkworks at Matra rewrote the family road trip by gifting Europe the original Espace. With its lightweight composite panels glued to a galvanized skeleton and a nose lifted straight from a high-speed TGV train, it started the entire continental religion of space-efficient motoring. The Espace was the ultimate rolling living room. Watching Renault surrender… Read more…

Alfa Romeo has never been the one to enter a room without causing a scene, and the christening of its first electric crossover was no exception. When Italy’s industry minister threw a full-blown patriotic tantrum over the proposed “Milano” badge – complaining that assembling an Italian-named car in Poland was a commercial treason – Alfa simply raided its archives and… Read more…

Britain has arrived at a multi-billion-pound fork in the road: which way will this island nation genuinely be better off? Do we keep enjoying the growing choice of ultra-affordable Chinese electric cars, or do we fall in step with Brussels and put up steep trade barricades to protect our deeply integrated domestic manufacturing base? It is a polarized dilemma with… Read more…

The British automotive market is a different animal entirely. Every year, on September 1st, bleary-eyed buyers hover around shiny new registration plates. But as the September 2026 registration dust settled across the UK, the automotive landscape went through a tectonic change. In thirty days, British motorists registered 99,199 pure battery-electric vehicles. That is almost five brand-new, tailpipe-free cars rolling onto… Read more…

With crude oil prices marching upward, courtesy of the geopolitical situation across the Middle East, drivers who spent the last two years swearing they would never touch a charging cable are wincing at the fuel pump and reconsidering their options. Tesla’s third-quarter delivery numbers for 2026 are a perfect example here. The finance people had already sharpened their knives, predicting… Read more…

Fifty miles south of the Arctic Circle is the frozen expanse of Arjeplog (Sweden) – and it’s not your usual testing ground. It is an unforgiving outdoor laboratory where half-baked chassis tuning and lazy electronic calibrations go to die. Watching a family-friendly compact crossover slide sideways across the ice ring track usually smacks of cheap marketing theater. But watching the… Read more…

Tesla China announced a new update coming to the Model 3 that includes a new 16-inch display with higher resolution and refresh rate, a new gray interior option and V2L functionality. Today, Tesla USA announced similar upgrades to its Model 3 that are also coming to Mexico and Puerto Rico. Interestingly, Canada wasn’t mentioned in the original Tesla post on… Read more…