Jaguar Land Rover is going to be adding the Amazon Alexa smart voice assistant as standard to all of its new cars, thanks to a new update to the company’s Pivi Pro infotainment system. It’ll come as standard on all new models and some models can be updated over the air retrospectively, cars going back as far as 2020 and includes the new Defender in that list. Around 200,000 existing […]
Over the years, BMW has sold around 250,000 units of the i3, the company’s first “i” branded electric car, which the company revealed in 2011. After nine years, BMW will be stopping production of the i3 with no direct replacement planned, instead the iX1 will fill that gap when it is launched and also a new version of the Mini E. Back in 2011, the i3 did not look normal, […]
Tesla has recently uploaded a video to its YouTube channel showing off the capabilities of the HEPA filter which is included on the Model S and Model X. The car can be programmed to enter “bioweapon defense mode” which helps keep particles and other nasty things in the air out of the interior. In the video, Tesla pits a BMW SUV up against its own Model X and uses a […]
In China, Tesla is now selling an official microphone for use with the cars built in karaoke feature. The ‘TeslaMic’ is only available in China for now and should come to other countries soon. The TeslaMic comes at the same time as a new software update for Tesla’s, in which a karaoke platform called Leishi KTV was added as part of a Chinese New Year software update. TeslaMic is available […]
Volkswagen has this week, revealed the all new and all electric ID.5 which is now on sale here in the UK, priced from £50,550. The top of the line GTX Max will be £58,640. The ID.5 is essentially a coupe version of the ID.4 but it has the largest battery pack Volkswagen has offered to date, with a 77kWh pack which offers up to 313 miles of range. There are […]
Jeep has unveiled the new Renegade in Brazil this month, ahead of its release here in the UK later this year. The new refreshed model isn’t that different from the current model, with just a handful of minor changes. Around the front of the Renegade is a new front bumper, with chunkier plastic body protection, new grey and red accent features. However, the grille has been changed much more, with […]
Ford has introduced the all new fifth generation Mondeo which for the first time since the model was introduced will be only sold in China. Ford will stop offering the current Mondeo here in the UK later this year in March. Ford has been offering the Mondeo over in China since 2002, but going forward the car will now only be offered there. Ford unveiled the new version at the […]
Ford this week has revealed its new top of the line model for the Bronco SUV, with the Bronco Raptor. Ford says this is focused on Baja rock crawling, high speed dune runs and good road manors. The company has not yet revealed any pricing for the Bronco Raptor but we do know that like the standard models, it is US only. This is now the third major model in […]
Volkswagen is reportedly planning on restarting the production and sales of the e-up! after it stopped in 2020. Volkswagen stopped selling the electric hatch due to a change in government incentives changed and caused a new surge in EV demand. Volkswagen stopped selling the e-up! due to the company being unable to sell it to be profitable with those discounts. Speaking to news website Golem, VW said: “We had temporarily […]
In 2021 Volkswagen was the best selling car manufacturer in the Europe with 1.08 million sold in 2021, compared to Peugeot who were in second place, with 649,514 sales in the same period. In third place was Toyota with 615,142 cars sold which was a price of 9.1% following the year previous, when the company was in eighth place. Elsewhere, Toyota is the best selling brand in the US last […]
