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The motor show is back, baby… This week, the Paris motor show proved there’s still life in trudging around mile upon mile of boxy, overheated exhibition hall in order to briefly poke around shiny new cars. Paris 2026 wasn’t just the good ol’ motor show fighting back, though, but the European car industry as a…

Tesla has finally revealed the production version of the new Roadster, and amongst all the OMG is quite a lot of WTF? Yes, the Tesla Roadster is likely splashed generously all over the automotive internet at the moment, but there’s probably a pause where it requires a recalibration of what Tesla has been quietly working…

Let’s just say it as we saw it then, and we can later reflect on whether it indeed happened, or if we ate a dodgy prawn at the pre-show buffet and succumbed to some sort of food poisoning fever dream. What we saw is this: the Tesla Roadster can fly. During its unveil event at…

In a world of spitefully inoperable screens, we need to commend Renault’s information and control layout. All those physical controls! Yay! But I’m not saying it’s perfect, even when you’ve had time to practice. For a start, those controls’ distribution is uneven. Your right hand has to negotiate no fewer than three column wands. First…

Goodness, they’re on top of things over at Rockstar. A launch trailer, over one calendar month before the actual launch of the imperious GTA 6! We bet they’ve done all their Christmas shopping already, too. Announced via Rockstar’s socials and hosted on its YouTube channel, the typically stylish minute and a half begins with co-protagonist…

Porsche is on the ropes. Its profits – once the envy of many a carmaker – fell off a cliff last year, plunging a whopping 93 per cent to €90m. Its bet on an EV future resulted in… two new petrol crossovers. It’s now on a mission to turn the ship around. And this is…

Ford’s 50th anniversary tribute to Steve McQueen’s movie car gets a white cue ball shifter… shame you never see it in the film. D’oh! The original dimpled golf ball from the 1976 MkI Golf GTI remains an iconic place to rest your palm. It has featured on manual GTIs ever since. Flip-top lid and a…

They’re not fast, they won’t go very far, and they’re certainly not stylish, but when pretty much the only alternatives were a G-Wiz or a second-hand milk float, these largely identical triplets were pioneers. With just 64bhp and a 93-mile range, their specs look laughable now, but if all you want is cheap, clean urban…

Good news! British sportscar-maker Zenos has returned with its lovely little E10 open-topped roadster, after going into administration back in 2017 and falling off the radar. Potentially Financially Ruinous News! There are but two models on offer with this comeback, and the 300bhp E10 r2 starts from – and we hope you’re sitting down for…

This is yet another new Chinese-SUV bound for UK shores at some point in early 2027. It is called the iCAUR V27 – their caps lock, not ours – and it looks for all the world to have been explicitly designed to give the Land Rover Defender a few sleepless nights. What’s an iCAUR –…