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• How many Chinese car brands can actually survive in the UK?

  27-06-2026 21:38 via autocar.co.uk
  
  When even car journalists struggle to keep up with new Chinese entrants, does the industry have a problem?I suppose it finally had to happen. An entire vehicle brand has been launched in the UK before I realised it even existed.
  Retailers started offering this maker's cars only four days before I found out about it, but still.
  I feel like I've failed. The car market has left a self-confessed car bore like me behind to the extent that there are not just models but now entire brands (okay, this on
  
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• Christian Von Koenigsegg On EVs And The Future Of Internal Combustion: Interview

  27-06-2026 18:00 via motor1.com
  
  The hypercar maker explains the choice of hybrid and why the internal combustion engine remains irreplaceable.
  
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• BMW Says It Would 'Love' A New M1

  27-06-2026 15:00 via motor1.com
  
  The BMW M1 is nearly 50 years old, and the automaker can’t stop thinking about it.  
  
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• My 85-year-old Jeep is perfect for driving to the shops

  27-06-2026 13:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Ready for action: Simple and reliable Jeep is easy to work on and appreciate"We always get the first car parking space at Asda!" jokes Ian Watson about his Willys Jeep, which he has owned for 10 years.
  "With the machine gun mounts - I have a couple of 30-calibre guns at home that fit them - it looks pretty serious." I hope he removes the - fake? - hand grenade attached to the dashboard when he and wife Viv pop into the supermarket.
  Ian's Jeep is an early example - a 1941 'Slat Grille' (when Ford
  
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• Alien encouter: visiting the UK's Area 51in a Maserati MCPura

  27-06-2026 07:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Exploring Britain's own Area 51 in the latest flying object from Modena: Brace for close encountersDo you believe?
  YouGov surveys suggest three-quarters of British people adjudge that alien life exists somewhere in the universe, while a whole third think those extraterrestrials have visited Earth at least once. Seven per cent of our population say they have seen a UFO. But I'd happily wager those figures swell at least a little in this hilly, happy valley in West Yorkshire. The market town of To
  
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• The most powerful American production car engines of all time

  27-06-2026 05:39 via autocar.co.uk
  
  There's no replacement for displacement, and this lot of hugely powerful and often massive engines prove that
  Internal combustion engines are far more complex than electric motors, and it’s correspondingly more difficult to make them produce a lot of power.As the 2011 horsepower Lotus Evija demonstrates, the most powerful cars of the near future will be EVs, but remarkable outputs have nevertheless been achieved with engines fuelled by petrol or diesel.
  Here we’re looking at 20 of th
  
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