Rapid family cars have long fascinated drivers who want genuine performance without giving up the practicality needed for everyday life. These saloons offered enough interior space for passengers, luggage, and family duties while also delivering the kind of speed and handling normally associated with dedicated sports cars. Their appeal came from this unusual combination of […]
Inside the Porsche Vault: Exploring Rare Prototypes and Iconic Legends in Stuttgart
Tucked away in an unnamed building near Porsche’s Stuttgart factory lies a secure facility known simply as The Vault. While the public Porsche Museum showcases under 100 vehicles, this private collection houses more than 700 road, race, and rally cars documenting decades of the German manufacturer’s development heritage. The collection began in the late 1950s […]
Retro Electric Vehicles Reviving Classic Automotive Designs for the Zero-Emission Era
Electric cars are coming, and they’re coming fast, right alongside an entire design movement that embraces the past. The combination of style and substance is hard to beat; throw in some modern muscle to go with the looks and you’ve got something special. And instead of trying to hide the fact that it’s not really […]
A Comprehensive Review of the BYD Sealion 5 Plug-in Hybrid SUV
Once a supplier of electric vehicle components, BYD has quickly established itself as a significant global automotive player, moving into the 21st century with a steadily increasing range of electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) outside of its native China. The BYD Sealion 5 DM-i lands right in the competitive family crossover […]
Reclaiming the Dashboard: Why Automakers Are Bringing Back Physical Controls to Cars
Modern cars have cabins that often resemble more the electronics section at a big box store than the interior of a car. High-resolution touchscreens and virtual instrument displays are the norm at all sorts of price points, as is vehicle function that relies on the software you’re seeing on those screens. It started as an […]
10 Dashboard and Interior Features Modern Drivers Have Learned to Hate
Today’s vehicles come with digital screens, automatic driver assists, connected features and computer control systems that all are advertised to create a wiser driving experience. Although many can impress you during a showroom demonstration, the wow factor usually doesn’t last and what you expected to save you time will end up costing you time. Driving […]
10 Small Vehicles That Redefined Compact Engineering and City Driving
Automotive excellence is not exclusively dependent upon vast displacements and gargantuan sheet metal. A nimble city hatchback or a smart microcar can be a thing of beauty. Explore the potential of downsizing with the help of our picks of the best small cars. They are all about maximizing the space within a relatively small footprint […]
10 Bizarre Laws and Restrictions Classic Car Owners Need to Know
Possessing an antique vehicle is among the easiest joys in the car industry. You find the perfect car, spend a lot of hours working on it and then drive it around when you feel like it. But it can get pretty complicated when the registration rules, insurance requirements, equipment requirements and local laws all come […]
Ferrari Luce Electric Vehicle Fetches Record $40 Million at Monterey Charity Auction
Ferrari’s First EV Now Making Auto History Before Most Are even Delivered The chassis number 0 of the Ferrari Luce fetched $40 million (roughly Dh147 million) at an RM Sotheby’s auction in Monterey, California, where it sold for more than 36 times the pre-sale estimate of about $1.1 million, setting an auction record for a […]
Ford Will Shift Lincoln Nautilus Production From China to United States
Production of the Lincoln Nautilus, Ford Motor Company will move to an American plant by 2030 to break a tradition of only selling imports in that nameplate to American customers. Today, Nautilus is shipped to U.S. Dealers from the Hangzhou plant of Changan Ford, another joint venture by Ford in China. Ford is framing the […]