Somewhere along the road to the software-defined car, designers began treating every ordinary control as an embarrassing mechanical relative who should be hidden before the guests arrived. China’s latest safety proposal is a bracing reply:…
Some commercial vehicles begin life with a ruler, a sheet of graph paper and a stern discussion about pallet widths. The Volvo EX30 Cargo began as a fashionable little electric SUV, then somebody removed its…
An electric-car brand launching a petrol-assisted SUV sounds like a vegetarian restaurant adding steak. Look closer, though, and Aion’s decision to bring the GS7 to Britain with hybrid and plug-in hybrid power in 2027 feels…
When an off-roader arrives with artificial intelligence, a plug-in hybrid system and the sort of square-jawed stance normally reserved for action figures, subtlety has clearly missed the bus. Geely’s Project KO11 is coming to Europe…
The Moke has never solved a problem that could not be tackled more cheaply with a small hatchback and a decent raincoat. That is precisely why it matters. Cars have become so busy justifying themselves…
An armoured limousine has one overriding job, but advertising that job to everybody in the postcode rather defeats the point. BMW’s Concept 7 Protection is interesting because it resists the usual temptation to make security…
DS has always promised French luxury, yet too often delivered a familiar car wearing an unusually expensive handbag. The F3VER Concept finally gives the brand a sharper answer. It is compact, electric and sufficiently peculiar…
There is sensible performance, and then there is fitting 816hp to something shaped vaguely like a small Peugeot. The E-T16 Concept belongs firmly in the second camp. It is an electric fever dream with three…
Peugeot has spent long enough building competent crossovers. The RCZ Vision is what happens when somebody finally locks the spreadsheet in a cupboard and gives the designers a long lunch. It is low, wide, electric…
Retro cars usually arrive wearing an old badge, three pieces of chrome and the faint whiff of a marketing meeting. Citroën’s 2CV Concept has a much better idea. It borrows the original car’s grin, certainly,…
