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It is very rare for a Chinese manufacturer to build a car for export from day one. Usually, we get a vehicle designed around Chinese traffic scenarios and smartphone ecosystems, with a European radio tuner bolted on eighteen months later as an...

Audi announced a major restructuring of its brands and joint ventures with SAIC and FAW in China. From this day forward, the Audi-SAIC partnership will produce the AUDI-branded (all-caps logo) vehicles, while the Audi-FAW joint venture will focus on...

The BMW 5-Series is one of the most popular luxury sedans worldwide. We already drove the top trim M60 xDrive models in the BMW i5 sedan and Touring lineup but today we’ll test how efficient the mid-range xDrive40 version is and if it is the smarter...

Here’s a simple fact about cars, electric or not - whenever you spend six or seven hours behind the wheel, you quickly forget about performance numbers and start caring about cabin layout. If you cannot put your phone on a charger without knocking a...

A good utility vehicle is supposed to earn its keep not through showroom drama, but through how well it works with the roads, lanes, parking bays, and the everyday tasks of the real world. When a vehicle needs an entire country to reshape its...

During the Paris Motor Show 2026, Fiat introduced a new Multiplay concept that will underpin future utility-focused models such as the revival of the Multipla. Today, the company pulled the curtains on another Multipla-like concept - the Multiplina....

Once you've been driving for a few years, you start to recognize unmarked police cars from quite far away. In the UK, traffic officers usually spend their shifts in a Skoda Octavia vRS, waiting for someone to get a bit too optimistic in the outside...

If you own an EV, then you most likely share my skepticism toward battery breakthroughs. Every few months, a press release promises a miracle technology - charge in five minutes, last a million miles, and weigh next to nothing. When a company says...

Tesla announced the driver-less taxi Cybercab in late 2024 and two years later, the company is already running test drives in Austin, Texas and the fleet is slowly growing bigger. The manufacturer is already producing some units at its Texas...

I learned something last week that I actually had no idea about - Paris has been hosting car shows since 1898, when a handful of first horseless carriages gathered in the Tuileries gardens and tried to convince very skeptical Parisians that the...

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...