• Stop slicing our salami: The real reason behind the Ferrari Luce furore

    Stop slicing our salami: The real reason behind the Ferrari Luce furore
    Why has the electric Ferrari attracted so much ire? It all started with a missing olive in 1987It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when the continuous chipping away of nice things began. I think you could make a case that Robert Crandall is the poster boy for the movement - which you could call shrinkflation, or enshittification, or something else, as you prefer - because of what he did as American Airlines CEO in 1987.
    Crandall realised that removing one olive from each salad served to pas
  • Honda Super-N road test: £19k Twingo chaser is "truly fun to drive'

    Honda Super-N road test: £19k Twingo chaser is "truly fun to drive'
    Kei car-based cutie escapes from Japan as Honda’s latest EV ventureThe Honda Super-N, along with the Renault Twingo, is one of the green shoots appearing in the scorched earth that was the previously thriving A-segment. Fun, affordable small cars have had a tough time with legislation and profitability, leaving them neither much fun nor very affordable. As battery prices are coming down, though, there’s now hope that A-segment cars can return as EVs.With the £18,995 Super
  • Honda Super-N road test: £19k Twingo chaser is “truly fun to drive”

    Honda Super-N road test: £19k Twingo chaser is “truly fun to drive”
    Kei car-based cutie escapes from Japan as Honda’s latest EV ventureThe Honda Super-N, along with the Renault Twingo, is one of the green shoots appearing in the scorched earth that was the previously thriving A-segment. Fun, affordable small cars have had a tough time with legislation and profitability, leaving them neither much fun nor very affordable. As battery prices are coming down, though, there’s now hope that A-segment cars can return as EVs.With the £18,995 Super
  • Kia vs train: Can an EV win 650-mile race from Paris to Berlin?

    Kia vs train: Can an EV win 650-mile race from Paris to Berlin?
    You can now get a sleeper train between the capitals of France and Germany. We decided to find out if it was easier to driveGermany's oldest drinking water reservoir is only a few metres behind me.
    And because I'm a sucker for big bits of engineering, and old bits of engineering, I would love to walk around the dam - even though I'm terrified by large bodies of water in places they're not meant to be.
    But I have no idea it's there. We're about to enter the small hours, my Kia EV4 Fastback is acc
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  • Rare Rides Icons: The Jeep Wagoneer, The First Luxury SUV Ever (Part XXI)

    Rare Rides Icons: The Jeep Wagoneer, The First Luxury SUV Ever (Part XXI)
    We conclude our coverage of the Jeep Wagoneer today, and close out a series that began in February. Last week, we reviewed sales and pricing details for the SJ Wagoneer in its long run from 1963 to 1991. Today we take a look at the same information for other types of Wagoneers Jeep offered to various levels of success from 1984 through today. It seems that since the '80s, Jeep pretty consistently underestimated the attachment owners had to the SJ Wagoneer, yet overestimated the draw of the Wagon