• Chrysler Bent on Nailing Interiors for Upcoming Models

    Chrysler Bent on Nailing Interiors for Upcoming Models
    Chrysler has several new vehicles in development right now, including some affordable crossovers. While the automaker seems to have dropped the pretense of being a premium brand, something that arguably hasn’t been true for decades, it still wants to offer vehicles that boast cabins that border on luxurious. There’s allegedly a plan in place to ensure that happens.
    Stellantis’ Chief Design Officer Ralph Gilles confessed that Chrysler had some bad interiors back in the day. Whil
  • Mega Monte Carlo GTB: The French V12 Supercar that Almost Changed Everything and Then Vanished

    Mega Monte Carlo GTB: The French V12 Supercar that Almost Changed Everything and Then Vanished
    France, as any petrolhead with a functioning memory will tell you, has always been a nation of contradictions when it comes to cars.  On the other, it occasionally produces something so wildly ambitious, so completely out of step with expectations, that you’re forced to stop and ask: “Hang on… who approved this?” This is, after all, the country that birthed Bugatti — a brand that, decades later, would go on to rewrite the laws of physics with the Bugatti Veyr
  • Why Passing Is So Hard with the NASCAR Next Gen on Short Tracks

    Why Passing Is So Hard with the NASCAR Next Gen on Short Tracks
    It's no secret that the NASCAR Next Gen car has had a hard time on short tracks and road courses because it's so hard to pass. Let's dig into the details of how yaw angle and downforce impact passing on short tracks and what the latest solution from NASCAR will do. TTAC Creator Bozidar “Bozi” Tatarević is a Bosnian-American racing mechanic, writer, and technical consultant born in Sarajevo in 1986. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1995, he learned English in elementary sch
  • Electric 3 Series: BMW i3 brings 567-mile range for £53k

    Electric 3 Series: BMW i3 brings 567-mile range for £53k
    New i3 saloon is among the UK's longest-range EVs – and cheaper than its Mercedes-Benz rivalOrder books for the new BMW i3 – the first electric 3 Series available globally – have opened, with prices for the saloon starting from £53,005.
    Although it is considerably costlier than its outgoing petrol and plug-in-hybrid counterparts (from £41,945 and £47,210 respectively), it undercuts the rival Mercedes-Benz C-Class Electric, which starts at £57,995. 
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  • Legislative uncertainty harming fleet plans to go EV

    Legislative uncertainty harming fleet plans to go EV
    Operators are now looking back towards hybrid, petrol and diesel, new survey showsUnclear regulations are hampering fleets’ appetite for electric cars, a new survey has revealed. 
    One in nine (11%) UK businesses are now forecasting a permanent role for petrol or diesel on company car fleets, and there are signs that sustainability is becoming less influential during procurement. 
    Leasing firm Alphabet’s 2026 European Fleet Emission Monitor report shows only half (50%) of th
  • Waymo Recalling Nearly 3,900 Vehicles Due to Software Glitch

    Waymo Recalling Nearly 3,900 Vehicles Due to Software Glitch
    Waymo LLC recalled 3,871 vehicles equipped with its fifth generation Automated Driving System because it may allow the vehicle to drive into closed freeway construction zones at speed instead of following required detours.The company  cited six incidents, one on April 11 and five more on April 19, in which the vehicles ignored signage warning of closed ramps and drove “into pre-planned freeway construction zones in Phoenix, AZ.” The same issue occurred again in mid-May whe
  • Ferrari to blend past and future with early July reveal

    Ferrari to blend past and future with early July reveal
    "Wait till the fourth of July", says Ferrari CEO, hinting at big unveiling that blends past and presentFerrari chief executive Benedetto Vigna has hinted that the Italian supercar manufacturer will unveil a significant new model at the start of July, promising a vehicle that combines the company’s heritage with its future direction.
    Speaking earlier this week to US car dealers at a Las Vegas conference run by dealer software company Tekion, Vigna repeatedly referenced an upcoming
  • 3000 miles in the boggo, petrol Mini

    3000 miles in the boggo, petrol Mini
    Is the petrol hot hatch a spent force? Not based on this 6000-mile testMuch has been made of whether the new Mini Cooper really merits being described as such, because if you peel back the subtly updated bodywork, rip out the funky knitted dashboard and disconnect the massive circular touchscreen, you will be left with fundamentally the same chassis and body-in-white as those used by its predecessor, which went on sale way back in 2013.
    While the electric Cooper is all-new, now built in China at
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  • New Spring: Dacia reveals name for upcoming £16k electric city car

    New Spring: Dacia reveals name for upcoming £16k electric city car
    Bold new look but a familiar name for Dacia's Twingo twin, due to be revealed in coming monthsDacia will keep the Spring name for the next generation of its electric city car, it has revealed.
    The new model, which is twinned with the Renault Twingo and built in Europe, unlike the current China-built Spring, will be officially known as the New Spring.
    However, a new preview image of the £16k EV's rear end shows it will be badged simply as Spring. 'New' will be used to differentiate the
  • Maserati "will have to have" manual gearbox in future supercar

    Maserati "will have to have" manual gearbox in future supercar
    Head of bespoke division says manual gearbox and petrol engine are musts for next supercarMaserati has confirmed it is working on a limited-run supercar fitted with a manual gearbox – as first reported by Autocar a year ago.
    The head of the Bottegafuoriserie bespoke division was previously responsible for the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, Cristiano Fiorio, told journalists: “Mainly 50% of our [Bottegafuoriserie] customers demand a manual gearbox and a petrol engine. We can say they ar
  • Maserati overhauls Granturismo, Grecale with supercar-inspired look

    Maserati overhauls Granturismo, Grecale with supercar-inspired look
    Makeover inspired by MCXtrema brings extra power and noise for V6-powered cars, plus rangier EVsThe Maserati Granturismo, Grancabrio and Grecale have all been updated with fresh faces that bring them closer in appearance to the MCPura supercar, while gaining additional power.
    Design chief Klaus Busse said the harder-edged look was started with the MCXtrema – a track-only car that “was never meant to be beautiful” – before being evolved with the MC20 GT2 Stradale and then
  • Why the £21k Dacia Duster is Britain's value champion

    Why the £21k Dacia Duster is Britain's value champion
    The Duster proves that cheap doesn't need to mean cheerlessOne of the cleverest things about the latest Dacia Duster is that its creators avoided messing it up.
    Better than that, they refined and improved it while maintaining its very attractive price (starting from £21,845) and its singular character - a real feat in a car market stuffed with me-too affordable crossovers.
    Despite changing the platform, giving it new styling inside and out, hybridising most of the powertrains and killing o
  • How to crack the UK market, according to BYD

    How to crack the UK market, according to BYD
    Bono Ge has grown the Chinese brand from an unknown in the UK to a big threat to everyone from Ford to AudiThere's a tendency for car industry watchers to view the rapid UK progress of leading Chinese marques as some kind of unearned overnight success, predicated on their ability to sell advanced cars at lower prices than anyone else.
    There is an element of truth to this, not least the recognition decades ago by China's long-termist government that the global electrified car market would be a pr
  • Ferrari 296 Speciale A

    Ferrari 296 Speciale A
    Maranello continues near-twenty-year-old tradition of peeling back the roof on its mid-engined trackday heroThe greatest supercars very often don’t make the most perfect sense. Logic would have allowed no need, nearly twenty years ago, for Ferrari to have built a limited-run of 499 open-topped versions of the untamed 430 Scuderia to celebrate the 16th constructor’s championship of its Formula 1 team. Who would want a Scuderia Spider ‘16M’ anyway, when they could just hav