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Tesla posted its Q3 2026 earnings report, and going purely by the numbers, it's neither great nor bad. During the period, Tesla produced 457,387 Model Y and Model 3 units and delivered 478,237. Including other models, Tesla produced 464,391 cars...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...