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The BYD Great Tang large electric SUV on display at the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, representing the Chinese automaker's new flagship model with 950km claimed range and sub-10-minute flash charging.

BYD Just Revealed a £28,000 Electric SUV With 950km of Range. The Rest of the Industry Should Be Embarrassed.

On the opening day of the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, BYD opened pre-sales of its new Great Tang SUV — a seven-seat electric SUV with a claimed 950km of range, sub-ten-minute flash charging capability, 0-100km/h in 3.9 seconds, starting from…

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The AMG 300 E 5.6 'Hammer', a modified Mercedes W124 E-Class, which became the fastest German production car in 1986 with a transplanted 5.6-litre V8

AMG Apr 24, 2026

The AMG Hammer: The Sleeper That Rewrote What Fast Looked Like

In 1986, the fastest production car a driver could buy from a German manufacturer was not a Porsche.…

A row of bare aluminum Ford F-150 truck bodies moving down an assembly line, flanked by rows of yellow robotic welding arms inside a Ford manufacturing plant.

Ford Apr 22, 2026

One Fire, Two Fires, and a $2 Billion Hole in Ford’s Best-Selling Truck

Seven months after the first fire at the Novelis facility in Oswego — followed by a helpful encore…

A 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL with its iconic gullwing doors open, showing the spaceframe chassis structure that necessitated the upward-opening design

Euro Apr 22, 2026

The Mercedes 300SL Gullwing Doors Were Never Meant to Look Cool

The Mercedes-Benz 300SL is routinely named among the most beautiful cars ever made. Its profile — low, swooping,…

A red Honda Civic Type R FL5 parked on a scenic overlook in Kitakyushu, Japan, with the Wakato Bridge and the city's harbour skyline stretching across the golden-hour horizon behind it, shot during a Forza Horizon collaboration.

Videos Apr 21, 2026

Forza Horizon 6 Is Set in Japan. The Real Japan Is Even Better Than the Game.

Somewhere in Kyushu, on a mountain road that rises 700 metres above sea level into a national park,…

The Porsche 901 prototype on display at the 1963 Frankfurt Motor Show, before the name was changed to 911 following a dispute with Peugeot

Euro Apr 20, 2026

The Porsche 911 Almost Had a Different Name

The Porsche 911 is one of the most recognisable names in motoring. It has been in continuous production…

Porsche has made a convertible GT3 for the first time. 510hp, manual only, carbon everywhere. Chris Harris says it drives like a coupe. He's right.

Euro Apr 16, 2026

Porsche Chopped the Roof Off a GT3. The Purists Were Wrong to Worry.

Porsche's GT division has spent the better part of three decades making people feel slightly inadequate at car…