Articles tagged "Announcement"

The BMW iX3 debuted the Neue Klasse platform for BMW and it just got its most powerful version yet. After the iX3 40 with one motor, the iX3 40 xDrive and the 50 xDrive all-wheel-drive versions BMW now adds an M edition. The sporty iX3 M60 xDrive...

BMW just announced the new iX4 coupe crossover, offering very similar dimensions and specs to the iX3, but with an SUV Coupe body, enabling better aerodynamics and longer range. The iX40 will launch in two variants in Europe - iX4 40 xDrive and...

Many, many years ago, Sir William Lyons famously declared that a Jaguar should be "a copy of nothing," an ethos that gave birth to the legendary 1961 Geneva unveiling of the E-Type. It was a car so jaw-dropping that Enzo Ferrari called it the most...

Back in 1984, Renault and the skunkworks at Matra rewrote the family road trip by gifting Europe the original Espace. With its lightweight composite panels glued to a galvanized skeleton and a nose lifted straight from a high-speed TGV train, it...

Fifty miles south of the Arctic Circle is the frozen expanse of Arjeplog (Sweden) - and it's not your usual testing ground. It is an unforgiving outdoor laboratory where half-baked chassis tuning and lazy electronic calibrations go to die. Watching...

The Range Rover Sport has been the bad boy of the luxury SUV world for good two decades. A rebellious, leather-lined battering ram equally good at doing burnouts outside Harrods as it was at scrambling up a muddy Scottish hillside. For three...

China, China, China… Nobody pauses to offer condolences in its cutthroat battery-electric dogfight - you really cannot call it another name. A simple stumble invites the competition to feed on your carcass. Lynk & Co felt that chill right down its...

Long before the hot hatch became Europe's idea of fun, French rally enthusiasts worshipped a little shoebox called "la Gorde." In 1964, Renault put a crossflow head onto a rear-mounted engine, dialed in a tail-heavy, pendulum-like handling balance,...

This is it. The moment has finally arrived when Bentley, known for wood shavings, hand-stitched hides, and the deep-chested burble of a giant V8, has to face the music. That moment even has its own name - the Torcal. It is the fourth model line in...

Who remembers the original Nissan Pixo? Back in 2009, it arrived as a rebadged Suzuki Alto assembled in Delhi: a cheap, bare-bones box powered by a buzzy 1.0-liter three-cylinder engine. It was transport in its purest, least romantic sense - an...

As you are sitting inside an EV that packs enough energy to power a suburban semi-detached house for three days straight, run by silicon microchips executing billions of calculations per second, there’s one major problem with it. When you stumble...

If you live in the West, then you've been told that building a genuinely compelling, long-range electric vehicle on a budget is about as realistic as finding a unicorn in a supermarket. Legacy automakers blame battery costs, supply chain...

Building a battery-electric vehicle that weighs close to three metric tons, stretches longer than a London townhouse, and can carve up corners like a hot hatchback has become the norm. Manufacturers desperately try to convince us that a living room...

The sacred three-letter badge of the hot hatch has officially entered the electric age. Purists won't be happy about it - rather than on the Golf, it arrives on its electric sibling, the ID.3. Fifty years after Wolfsburg lit a fire under the...

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...

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...

Today at the Chengdu Auto Show, BYD showcased the third-generation Tang SUV, which is an important model because it's meant to revitalize the sales of the Tang series, together with the bigger Da Tang (Great Tang). The new Tang is a five-seat...

Nobody could have predicted ten years ago that one day, Hyundai's fledgling luxury spin-off would celebrate its tenth anniversary by taking aim at Crewe and Goodwood. Very short ten years after the stately G90 limousine first cleared its throat,...