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Xiaomi, the smartphone colossus turned automaker, has decided that conquering the Nürburgring was only an appetizer. To feed the beast of mass-market scale, you do not build low-slung electric sports sedans forever - you build family wagons that can...

Here's a fact nobody could have ever predicted: the most commercially vital Jeep on earth is a four-meter runabout assembled in Poland and tailored specifically for navigating tight roundabouts. Jeep - a brand forged on thirsty V8 engines, ladder...

For the last ten years at least, mainstream carmakers have insisted that saving the planet means building two-and-a-half-tonne, leather-lined electric dreadnoughts that cost as much as a small terraced house in Yorkshire. Showrooms are packed to the...

Back in 1999, Audi created a brilliant, lightweight oddity that almost nobody wanted to buy. The original A2 was an engineering tour de force - an aluminum teardrop that sipped fuel, thumbed its nose at automotive excess, and arrived roughly a...

There is an old rule on the racetrack: when the chicane gets dangerously busy and every car around you starts swapping paint, the smartest driver looks for clear asphalt out wide. It is simple and effective. Right now, China's domestic electric...

Most car manufacturers treat battery thermal runaway the way politicians treat illegal donations - pretend they never heard the conversation, and deflect blame to third-party suppliers the second smoke appears. But Xiaomi, never one to shy away from...

Right after taking delivery of our brand new BMW iX3 50 xDrive, we put its range claims to the test. From the dealership, we headed straight to the seaside, covering almost 249 miles in one go. After spending some time there, we started the return...

The ghost of Ferdinand Piëch must be pacing the offices in Wolfsburg, cursing into the fluorescent lights. The gospel according to Volkswagen used to be simple, quite arrogant for sure, but very effective: conquer every conceivable niche, buy every...

The whole world watched a golden wedge glide silently across the sunbaked Austin tarmac yesterday, its butterfly doors opened up against the Texas sky, and we all felt that familiar chill every car enthusiast gets when confronting the death of the...

Ettore Bugatti famously derided W.O. Bentley's Le Mans-conquering racers as "the fastest lorries in the world." It was meant as a Parisian sneer, but in Crewe, they took it as the highest form of praise. For over a century, a proper Bentley has...

At IFA Berlin 2026, under the sterile white exhibition lighting usually reserved for curved televisions and robotic vacuum cleaners, Xiaomi Auto dropped a sledgehammer right into the heartland of European motoring. With an official European market...

In 1980, when International Harvester switched off the assembly line for the original Scout II, nobody in their right mind could have predicted that four decades later a German automotive empire would resurrect the badge to lead an all-electric...

MINI is one of the most recognizable automotive brands in pop culture, even among people with little interest in cars. Today, we are testing one of its new additions, the MINI Aceman JCW e, a compact crossover positioned below the Countryman while...

Hypermiling is very much like competitive meditation - it demands a monk-like discipline, bordering on clinical obsession. Tires pumped to granite firmness, every comfort accessory banished, climate systems powered down, and a right foot operating...

When Charles Spencer King sketched out the very first Range Rover in the late 1960s, he thought of a utilitarian aristocrat - a 4x4 trimmed in hose-down vinyl that could shepherd flock of sheep across a soggy Yorkshire moor before parking outside...

Spend five minutes reading industry headlines, and you could swear the electric transition had hit a brick wall. We love a good crisis - tales of unsold inventory on dealer lots, companies dusting off combustion blueprints, and buyers going back to...

Zeekr is rapidly expanding across Europe, and its models are becoming an increasingly common sight on the road. With a growing and diverse lineup, the brand now offers something for any kind of buyer. Today, we are testing the Zeekr 7GT Privilege...

SUV Coupé - a curious breed of vehicle engineered to solve a riddle nobody asked for. It usually comes about by chopping off rear headroom and ditching visibility in the name of athletic posturing. Polestar applied that avant-garde dogma to its...

Xiaomi Auto announced that its monthly vehicle deliveries stayed above 30,000 vehicles in August, extending the streak of five months in a row past that baseline. On paper, moving thirty thousand high-tech EVs every thirty days sounds like a win for...

Today Waymo has announced its expansion into three new cities in the US: Denver, San Diego, and Tampa. With these three, the total number of cities where Waymo operates in the US is now 14. The company says "tens of thousands" of people in...