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A lineup of seven early electric vehicles parked in front of the Houses of Parliament in London, including a Nissan Leaf, Toyota Prius Plug-in, Audi A3 e-tron, BMW i3, Renault Zoe, Volkswagen Golf GTE and Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, with a red double-decker bus passing in motion blur behind them.

Britain Just Passed Two Million Electric Cars. It’s Also Six Points Behind Its Own Target. Only in the UK.

The United Kingdom has just passed two million registered electric cars. It is also, simultaneously, missing its own government’s targets by a gap wide enough to park several thousand of them in. This is, it turns out, precisely on brand.…

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Euro May 20, 2026

Why the BMW M3’s V8 Was Nobody’s First Choice

The E92 BMW M3, produced from 2007 to 2013, is widely considered one of the finest performance cars…

The 2019 Toyota GR Supra A90 in red, co-developed with BMW on the same platform as the Z4, marking the Supra's return after a 17-year absence

JDM May 1, 2026

Why the New Toyota Supra Is Really a BMW

When Toyota revealed the GR Supra in January 2019, seventeen years after the previous generation ended production, the…

BMW has spent decades building its reputation on the proposition that a car can be both practical and genuinely rewarding to drive — a combination it has achieved more consistently than almost any other mass-market manufacturer. It has also spent the past several years navigating the electric transition with a strategy that involves building more models in more segments than feels strictly necessary, while simultaneously developing genuinely impressive technology with companies like Rimac. Cars & Code covers BMW with appreciation for what it gets right and honest commentary on what occasionally seems like too many variants of the same basic SUV.