Now it’s the electric motor A diesel as a sporty top model is a rarity. We cannot recall a BMW M5 tds, Mercedes-Benz 190D 3.0 Evo, or Toyota GRD Yaris. Skoda deliberately put on the bold diesel shoes. Back in the day, you had diesels. And man, were we happy with them. The undersigned remembers […]
Autonomous Delivery A Tesla Model Y drove itself autonomously, i.e. without a driver, from the factory near Austin to a customer’s home on Friday. This is the latest move by the American electric car manufacturer to showcase its progress in autonomous driving. In a post on X, CEO Elon Musk reported that the company had
Still with carburetor You never forget your first love. That’s why we look back with unknown Dutch people on their very first car. We kick off with a real enthusiast car, the Ford Escort XR3 from Jan-Kees van Herk. We go back to 1981. You can start your car career worse than with an Escort
Duurtester wekt verwachtingen Wat een beetje lekkere looks en een heerlijk direct karakter al niet kunnen doen met de verwachtingen. Met 150 pk op de voorwielen levert de Renault 5 Iconic-duurtester voldoende vermogen en hebben we over sprinttijden niet te klagen. Maar toch, met zijn donkerblauwe lak en de gouden streep langs de dakrand schept
Surprisingly complete, but still just the ‘Smart’ In ‘Back to Basics’ we cover all sorts of cars, including cars that are expensive even in their basic form. That leads to some complaints here and there, but today we’re going to go really ‘back to basics’. Although, actually that’s not so bad with the Hyundai i10!
Electric and hybrid Avenger described by users The Jeep Avenger was crowned Car of the Year 2023 and has since become the second most popular Jeep ever in our country. But does the compact model perform ‘car of the year’-worthy in practice? Let’s take a look at the user reviews. With the Avenger, Jeep rounds
You could recently read and see how the brand new Toyota Urban Cruiser drives; in fact, a slightly modified electric Suzuki Vitara. Very different from the original Urban Cruiser, because that was a cross between an MPV and an SUV. Perhaps it was too far ahead of its time then, because after a few years
Out of fear of the Americans? A huge group of no less than 11, mainly German, companies want to jointly develop open-source software for automotive applications. Participants include Porsche, BMW, and Mercedes. BMW, Continental, Hella, Mercedes-Benz, Bosch, Valeo, Porsche, and ZF: just some of the big names from the European automotive industry that have joined
Yet just caught the Daihatsu to Hamburg. The Copen had been standing still for so long and the idea was challenging; Three hundred kilometers in an open dwarf over the Autobahn, laugh. So there I went, with my bucket of papier-mâché in the awkward seating pit that had a full canned after a collision. Playing
High pressure due to disappointing sales “We can’t live without you, but we’re going to try it.” That is the scope of what Tesla top manager Omead Afshar has reportedly heard. Disappointing sales would have cost him his job. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was much in the news in the first half of 2025, but