[ad_1] People have wanted a BMW M3 Touring for as long as Munich’s sports saloon has been on the road, but the firm has stubbornly refused to build one, save for a concept based on the E46-generation M3 that it kept secret for upwards of ten years. However, that’s finally changed. It’s taken nearly 40 years and six generations of …
[ad_1] Cutting the price of electric cars would be “not healthy” for Europe’s car makers while profits are still hard fought, according to Luca de Meo, Renault Group CEO and new chairman of European car industry lobby group the ACEA. Tesla cut prices of its Model 3 and Model Y best-sellers by up to £8000 in the UK as part of global redrawing of …
[ad_1] European car industry lobby group the ACEA will become more “assertive” in future in the face of rising global competition and costs connected to the switch to electrification, incoming president Luca de Meo has said. The ACEA’s impact as a lobbyist has waned over the years as the European Union clamped down on CO2 output, leading to the ban on …
[ad_1] American hypercar manufacturer Glickenhaus has revealed new details about the upcoming 007S, the road-legal edition of the SCG 007 Le Mans racer. Limited to 24 examples, it’s a strict three-seater with a McLaren F1-style central driving position and two rear passenger seats. Glickenhaus confirmed the car is fully road legal in the US and there’s a “strong possibility” that it will come …
[ad_1] The straight-six engine channels its reserves to both the front and rear wheels via AMG’s nine-speed Speedshift MCT gearbox. As with its PHEV stablemates, the new E63 is set to receive seven different AMG Dynamic Select driving modes: Electric, Comfort, Battery Hold, Sport, Sport+, Slippery and Individual. With increased power and torque, AMG will be looking to top the performance …
[ad_1] Mercedes-AMG has the basis of a good performance hybrid system in the ‘E-Performance’ powertrain of the latest Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG. The high-voltage battery pack is relatively light and energy-dense, but is also effectively cooled and thermally robust: so lots of intensive charging and discharging doesn’t seem to overheat it. The two-speed rear-axle drive also seems to allow the electric …
[ad_1] American hypercar manufacturer Glickenhaus has revealed new details about the upcoming 007S, its road-legal edition of the SCG007 Le Mans racer. The car, limited to 24 examples, is a strict three-seater with a McLaren F1-style central driving position and two rear passenger seats. Glickenhaus confirmed the car is fully road legal in America, with a “strong possibility” that it …
[ad_1] The London Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) means some older cars need to pay a fee to enter the capital. Here are all the details. The London ULEZ was introduced in 2019, affecting hundreds of thousands of vehicles driving on the streets of the capital. Other cities, such as Birmingham, Edinburgh, Manchester and Oxford, are set to follow suit. It was designed by …
[ad_1] I left it to Max Edleston, our photographer, to find out just how flexible. As soon as the T7 arrived, I handed it to him to use as a tour bus for some musician friends. For 10 days, he was groupie, roadie, driver, technician, gopher and more as he took them nearly 2000 miles around the country. The Multivan …
[ad_1] For around a decade now, the automotive industry’s worst-case scenario has kept getting worse, with lowlights ranging from the emissions scandal and its fallout to the pulling forward of electric car mandates by a decade, the ramping up of safety and pollution standards, the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and more. But if you can forgive looking at a …
