October 14, 2026
Former McLaren Formula 1 boss Ron Dennis has been knighted in King Charles III’s latest New Years Honours list. The mastermind behind multiple titles has been given the honour for his services to industry and charity. Current Red Bull Boss Christian Horner, who had previously been made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of
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Carlos Sainz Jr ended the consecutive run, and what had looked like a possible unbeaten Invincibles’ season for Red Bull, with a beautifully judged win in Singapore. Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile, batted away talk of retirement to show he’s still got a record eighth world title in him – as long as his team can rediscover its
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Porsche is currently hooked on the hard stuff: the rare-groove special editions every manufacturer of note seems to be purveying as though their existence depended on it. (Maybe it does?) It’s obvious why. These creations delight the engineering teams, but so too do they have the bean-counters positively frothing at the mouth, such is the
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The road test has been measuring what we call the ‘door span’ – the width that is occupied when the front doors are fully opened – of its subjects for several years now. In itself, it may be quite a niche dimension to record, but it’s a useful corollary of not only outright vehicle width
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As well as being highly aerodynamic, Xiaomi also claims the SU7 boasts high levels of structural integrity. The rear body structure is cast in a 9100-tonne die-casting machine. Power for the SU7 comes from Xiaomi’s own in-house developed electric motors, named after combustion engine arrangements: the V6, V6s and V8s. The base V6 develops 295bhp and 295lb
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If you’re drawn to the V40 by Volvo’s reputation for practical, comfortable transport, you’ll probably be quietly impressed by what you find. That it didn’t lead the class on space is perhaps a slight shame, but it’s not a major surprise, given the car’s average outward dimensions. The V40 offers passenger accommodation levels and usable
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Episode 67 of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars finds our resident car hacks Steve Cropley and Matt Prior talking about the Tesla Cybertruck, the Alpine A110 in Autocar’s Japanese publication, Prior’s column mopping up previously unwritten items from the year, Cropley’s views on the Vauxhall Astra EV and much more besides, including your
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Welcome to the first of our December double issues! This week, we’ve packed 148 pages of news, advice, road tests, and page-turning features into one magazine. We cover everything including BMW’s’Neue Klasse’ iX3 and its tech secrets, a road test of the Pelican of London, recount our best motoring memories of 2023, go highland camping
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BMW has denied speculation that it will abandon internal combustion engines after its research and development boss, Frank Weber, labelled the reports as “complete nonsense”. Sources close to the German firm had claimed that it would not continue with its involvement in combustion engines, particularly as rival firms begin to increase investment in electric drivetrains. “Firstly, it’s
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The 1.0-litre engine is no powerhouse, but thanks to the snappy six-speed manual, it gets out of its own way well enough. If you must have an automatic transmission, the Dacia Jogger Hybrid is the one to go for and returns very impressive economy. It rides well on its soft suspension but has enough inherent
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That’s to exclude the top-level comfort of a car’s seat and its driving position, though – which, when you really concentrate on it, can have a defining influence on ride comfort all by itself. It also skates blithely over topics like surface-noise filtering, ride suppleness, body rigidity, damper response, close body control head toss and
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When lowered, the table sits four degrees adrift of the floor angle so that your champagne stays level in the glass during a supersonic cruise, when the aircraft is flying four degrees nose-up. Concorde provides excellent facilities, ranging from the small galleys to the even smaller washrooms. But while the galleys turn out superb meals
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On the launch of the Aston Martin DBX 707 in 2022, a heavily overhauled version of the DBX, we were given the obligatory show-around of the car. All was going well until we got inside and I prodded the screen on the dashboard. “Yeah… that’s still not a touchscreen,” came the awkward reply. However spectacular Aston Martins
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Chinese electric car maker Nio will launch a new budget brand codenamed Firefly into European markets in 2024, aimed at small cars the size of the Volkswagen Polo. Firefly – which will be launched alongside another new EV sub-brand known as Alps – was “designed and developed for Europe”, Lihong Qin, president and co-founder of Nio, told journalists on
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As an entry point to BMW’s EV line-up, the iX1 makes sense on paper. But did it make sense in the real world? Why we ran it: To see if BMW’s entry EV was as impressive as its range-topper Month 6 – Month 5 – Month 4 – Month 3 – Month 2 – Month 1 – Specs Life with a BMW iX1:
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Cariad’s internal delays hurt the roll-out of the Volkswagen ID 3, for which it developed software Close 2 mins read 15 December 2023 Volkswagen Group’s embattled Cariad software unit has agreed to cut development costs in order to avoid mass lay-offs, according to reports. Cariad boss and former Bentley production head Peter Bosch had wanted
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Zeekr has unveiled its first in-house-developed battery, a lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) unit that features in the Chinese EV firm’s new 007 saloon. Called the Golden Battery, it’s billed as the world’s first mass-produced 800V LFP battery to offer ultra-fast charging capability. It can accept rates of up to 500kW. Zeekr claimed the Golden Battery, which is also planned to be used
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When it reaches production, it will sit under the ID 3 in the firm’s EV line-up, with VW describing it as being “as spacious as a Golf and as inexpensive as a Polo”. Significantly, the ID 2all showcases an entirely new design language that will feature on all of the firm’s future EVs. This is
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For many car owners, the EV represents an entirely new way of driving and brings with it many queries and concerns. Obviously range anxiety still dominates the electrification conversation, but for many there are also question marks over the life of the battery that powers these hi-tech machines. Wherever you look, there are stories suggesting
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Read the headlines about the optional ‘Hyperscreen’, which turns the whole dashboard into a touch screen, and you could easily be fooled into thinking the EQS is all about the tech. It turns out that is the least impressive part of the car. Everything works, looks good and does what it’s supposed to, but it’s
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The UK bought more than twice as many cars as it scrapped in 2023, according to data obtained by Autocar. Obtained by Freedom of Information request, it revealed that 798,363 cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) were scrapped between the start of January and the end of October. That’s less than half of the 1,889,758 new cars
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This is even possible while the car is being driven thanks to special film technology that prevents the driver from seeing the display. Driving games, much like in Teslas, can be played while the car is charging. But unlike with a Tesla, you don’t use the steering wheel to control the virtual car. Macan EV:
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