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Watchmaking was a mixed bag in the 1970s. The arrival of quartz brought reliable watches for all, but also put loads of old companies out of business. To survive, you needed to up your game, and one of the decade’s many innovations is now enjoying a big revival. The integrated bracelet played a big part…

Dacia already makes a small, cheap (relatively speaking) electric car, and it’s called the Spring. Good one, too. But now it has announced that it is building an entirely new and different small, cheap (relatively speaking) electric car, and it’s called the… well, we don’t know yet. Chiefly because this small, cheap new electric car…

The Porsche Cayenne is an electric car. Not metaphorically, but literally: the new big boi performance SUV is now powered by electrons, and here’s the third version you’ll soon be able to choose from: the Cayenne S Electric. It fits, according to Porsche, above the regular Cayenne Electric, and below the Cayenne Turbo Electric, making…

As you may have noticed if you’ve looked at today’s TopGear.com home page, Renault is currently outlining its excruciatingly-titled ‘futuREady’ plan that’ll apparently drive its growth between now and 2030. But that growth won’t just be in Europe. In fact, Renault wants to be selling more than two million vehicles per year by 2030, and…

Welcome, one and all, to the future. Or, at least, Renault’s rolling testbed of the future. Fine, the R-Space Lab, to give it its proper name. It’s not officially the new Megane, but is it just us that thinks… it could be? It comes from Renault’s Futurama laboratory, set up to strategise what its production…

This is the new Dacia Striker. We know it to be a C-segment crossover that straddles the worlds of the humble estate car, hatchback and SUV, because that’s what Dacia has told us. We also know it to be a crossover that’ll come with a few different drivetrains, like a hybrid version, a hybrid version…

What you’re looking at above is not the new Alpine A110. In fact, it is simply an artist’s impression based on a guess that Renault’s sporting brand won’t stray too far from its current design language. Looks pretty neat though, right? Anyway, while we remain in the dark about the visuals, we do at least…

This is the Audi RS3 competition limited. To no great surprise, it is a limited edition of the RS3 competition that’s been built to celebrate 50 years since Audi first slotted a five-cylinder engine into the slender nose of the 1976 100. To great surprise, it is supremely expensive. More on that later. How then,…

This is the Chery Tiggo 4. Now, we’re not really that interested in the Chery Tiggo 4, but we thought we ought to show it to you so that you can continue to recognise every single car on sale in the UK. We’ll be honest, that skill is getting trickier with every passing launch. You…

In short, this is a revolution for BMW, one of the world’s great car companies. The real significance of this new iX3 is to be the first out of the traps for a new generation of electric vehicles. And we mean completely new, from ground to cloud. BMW is calling them the New Class, or…