Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the car-fan Internet, BMW has revealed a new shark-nosed EV concept car that’ll ironically pour petrol on the raging fires started by the Mercedes-AMG 4-door EV and the Ferrari Luce. This is the new electric BMW M3. Okay, not officially. Strictly, this is merely the…
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has become a significant hoopla for carmakers to desperately plead that they are in no way a ‘legacy’ industry. The audience skews heavily tech, and this year, AI voice interaction was hot, hot, hot. In the show-floor demos, trained operators would ask their cars to change the climate…
Read part one here. 20) Volkswagen e-Up! PHOTO BY TopGear.com ‘Huh, made in Yorkshire, was it?’ A tedious bore will ask you for the 934,000th time when they see that you drive a Volkswagen e-Up!, a goal left even more open by VW’s irritatingly jaunty insistence on sticking an exclamation mark on the end of the…
Audi CEO Gernot Döllner had a 23-year career at Porsche before returning to the mothership and then taking the reins at Audi. One of the projects he ran at Weissach was the 918 Spyder, a concept version of which appeared at the Geneva Motor Show in 2010. That was cooked up in almost total secrecy…
Audi is readying a really big car called the Q9 that offers up to seven seats, but before that, here’s another really big car that might just undermine it a tad. It’s the new, third-generation Audi Q7. As you can see, it big. And it will offer up to seven seats, including, for the first…
