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Detroit has been making cars long enough to learn that nothing tests a carmaker's resolve quite like a sudden shift in consumer trends. A couple of years ago, you couldn't pass an automotive press conference without hearing corporate executives...

In case you were wondering about Tesla's much-hyped, constantly delayed Roadster, the company's Chief Designer, Franz von Holzhausen, has two words for you: "very soon". Well, technically, the full quote is "Yes, very soon". That's it. Seriously....

Mercedes revealed its 4-door AMG GT coupe back in May, which is the carmaker's most powerful vehicle yet, outputting 1,169 hp in the GT 63 version. During the announcement, Mercedes hinted at an AMG SUV counterpart that will employ the same...

Japan's kei car segment has long been an impenetrable automotive fortress. Suzuki, Daihatsu, Honda, and Nissan have guarded this hyper-regulated, quirky micro-universe like a Holy Grail. Foreign auto execs looked at Japan's strict dimension rules,...

Standing under the blazing Austin sun outside Gigafactory Texas, a gold-painted Tesla Cybercab caught my eye in a set of newly released photos, its butterfly door propped skyward beside the Lone Star flag. At first glance, it looks like a sleek,...

Ever since electric cars stepped out of the golf-cart realm, we've been promised that the miracle battery was just around the corner. You know the pitch - the power pack that weighs next to nothing, charges before you can finish a sandwich, and...

When a company's CEO personally hands over the keys to the 20,000th unit of an executive flagship SUV only 73 days after launching it, you know something unusual is happening. That is what William Li did in Fujian, delivering a fresh ES9 to tea...

The pace of the Chinese electric vehicle arms race is relentless. The moment a brand has settled into its rhythm, it pulls out the drafting paper and drops a fresh design directly onto the showroom floor. Case in point: Avatr. The joint effort...

How times change in Wolfsburg and Shanghai. A decade ago, the idea that Volkswagen - pretty much the king of global automotive engineering - would turn to a young Chinese tech startup to co-develop its core electric vehicle architectures was...

The Smart #2 was recently spotted undergoing testing ahead of its launch at the Paris Motor Show in October. In case you're not aware, this is an EV that's very much inspired by the original Smart ForTwo city car. It has a very similar shape and...

There is something wonderfully absurd about a 6,634 lb wedge of cold-rolled stainless steel tearing up the black stuff with up to 845 ponies going wild. Yes, it does look like it was drawn on a napkin during a late-night sci-fi marathon and...

Back in my day, car camping was all about pitching a soggy tent next to a rusty hatchback, eating cold beans, and praying a raccoon wouldn't steal my boots or leave a nasty surprise in the said tent. And for a very long time, things haven't changed...

Smart used to mean one thing: a plastic-bodied, two-seat egg that you could park facing the curb just to prove a point. Those funky little city buggies were special in a weird, urban-chaos sort of way. Fast forward to today, and the union between...

Every time an automaker promises a holy grail technology that will magically vanish range anxiety, my cynical petrolhead instincts take the better of me. We have been hearing about solid-state batteries for what feels like a lifetime - hyped as the...

Dongfeng Nissan has a fresh teaser poster that says it is not ready yet to surrender the Chinese EV market to local titans. We have watched legacy brands stumble through the global EV transition for some time now, some even trying (and many failing)...

Today, Ford has decided to finally unveil the name of its next electric truck. It will be called Fathom. Ford says it comes from "a deep understanding of the person who would drive it". "Deep", because a fathom is a unit of measurement equal to six...

There is something eerie about watching a vehicle pull up to the curb, pop its indicator, and smoothly join the traffic without human hands on the wheel. No matter how many times you try it, there's a moment of awe. Sure, the ride is nothing like a...

BMW today announced that it's starting to produce the i3 series at its plant in Munich, Germany. The company began taking orders for the new i3 in June. BMW says that high demand has led to "a steep ramp-up curve at the plant". The plant has made...

The Mercedes AMG GT 4-Door Coupe broke cover in May and was introduced in only two configurations - the top-tier GT 63 and the mid-tier GT 55. The former boasts 1,153 hp with a 432 miles range, while the latter boasts 805 hp and a 435 miles range....

It has only been five years since Xiaomi decided to go into the auto business, and when a smartphone titan said it wanted to build cars, legacy carmakers offered a patronizing smile. But when Xiaomi rolled out the SU7 sedan and followed it up with...