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A single BMW test driver rolled out of the Shenyang manufacturing plant at dawn, pointed the snout of the new BMW iX3 toward the capital, and refused to stop until Beijing's ring roads came into view. By the time he pulled into BMW's R&D...

When Nio first began dotting the Chinese landscape with robotic battery swap stations, many dismissed the whole enterprise as an eccentric, money-burning vanity project. Conventional wisdom dictated that building huge drive-in mechanical vaults was...

Some time ago, we were invited to preview Xiaomi’s new SkyNomad N70 and N90, and we can now finally share everything we learned. Until now, the interior of the smaller N70 had remained under wraps, but after spending some time inside, we can reveal...

Leather has enjoyed a century-long monopoly over luxury car interiors, but I always struggled to understand our obsession with it. In the heat of mid-July, it turns into a scorching skillet, and by January, it feels like you're sitting on a block of...

Building a desirable car from scratch has to be the quickest way on earth to incinerate a mountain of cash. Doing it when your background is stamping out pocket-sized glass rectangles and smart rice cookers makes it look like pure madness. And yet,...

When Zhejiang Geely scooped up Volvo from Ford's bargain basement back in 2010, the automotive establishment assumed the Chinese industrial giant would simply siphon off Swedish safety patents and leave Gothenburg to build sensible estate cars....

According to a report from The Information, Tesla is getting ready to launch its autonomous Cybercab service in Austin, Texas, by the end of this month. However, this is an internal target, and there are indications Tesla might miss it. The...

Enzo Ferrari once famously quipped that he sold engines and threw the rest of the car in for free. For well over seven decades, that intoxicating, high-rpm combustion crescendo was the untouchable soul of Maranello. But when the Italian marque...

The automotive world has a way of delivering plot twists that no scriptwriter would have imagined a decade ago. Porsche - the sacred temple of screaming flat-sixes, and motorsport pedigree - has formally decided to decouple from its parent...

In the last decade or so, screens have become an inseparable part of modern-day vehicles, but at some point, the pendulum has swung a bit too far. Nowadays, drivers are complaining about complicated UI and touch controls to perform simple tasks like...

Xiaomi launched the SU7, its first EV (which was also its first car), on March 28, 2024, and deliveries started on April 3. It's been 28.5 months since then, and the company is today celebrating selling more than 500,000 of them. This would be a...

Hyundai unveiled the Ioniq 3 in April in its N Line trim, and then revealed the Standard version last month. Today, the company has announced that production is starting at its plant in Izmit, Türkiye. This is the first EV passenger car built by...

Genesis - the one brand that has always been the polite guest at the luxury automotive dinner party. Back in the day, the Germans traded blows with ever-stiffer suspensions and carbon-fiber trinkets, but the Korean brand carved out a serene niche of...

Only three years ago, if you wanted four figures of driving range, you had to drag an internal combustion engine along for the ride. When BYD launched the original Denza N8 back in 2023, the electric variant came with a respectable 108.8 kWh battery...

This is what Tesla had to deal with for nearly three years: dockworkers across Scandinavia refusing to touch roll-on/roll-off ferries, postal couriers locking up license plates in vaults, electricians cutting off maintenance to roadside...

Today, Rivian has introduced the 2027 model year R1S and R1T. The headline feature for the R1S is that you can now order it with captain's chairs in the second row. There are thus six seats in the car, and to reach the third row you have a center...

Uber and Pony AI formed a partnership back in May 2025, and now their collaboration is moving forward with plans to deploy robotaxis in five European cities. The plan is to release more than 2,000 vehicles. The first city on the list is...

On paper, the global EV train is barrelling down the tracks at a respectable clip. Around 1.85 million plug-in cars rolled off dealer lots worldwide last July alone - that's a solid 9% increase over the same month last year, pushing our 2026...

I love the Monterey Car Week - it has always been a theatre of excess. A sun-drenched coastal sanctuary where collectors talk about bespoke leather stitching over chilled glasses of champagne. But watching Lucid roll out a three-row family hauler...

Every time a manufacturer promises a bargain EV, we usually end up with hollow plastic doors, anemic powertrains, and infotainment screens smaller than a retro handheld gaming console (Dacia Spring anyone?). But in China, the story seems to be...