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Europe’s automotive industry is navigating the most complicated regulatory environment in its history — EV mandates, emissions targets, Chinese competition, and a luxury market that keeps growing regardless. From Wolfsburg to Maranello, Stuttgart to Coventry, Cars & Code covers the European car industry: what it’s building, what it’s abandoning, and whether the continent that largely invented the modern car can hold its ground.
15 articles about Europe
There is a particular type of vehicle that car enthusiasts describe as "characterful" when what they actually mean is "deeply annoying to drive but impossible not to love." The Ineos Grenadier Quartermaster has been squarely in that category since it…
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Cheap, cheerful, increasingly competent — but not a threat to the leather-and-walnut end of the market. That era…
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The electric vehicle industry has spent years making carefully reasoned arguments about climate targets, lower running costs, and…
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Porsche's GT division has spent the better part of three decades making people feel slightly inadequate at car…
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The small electric car has had a difficult few years. Not because nobody wants one, but because the…
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The Polestar 4 — a name that tells you it is the fourth Polestar model released, in release…
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Somewhere in Stuttgart, a very expensive whiteboard has been wiped clean. Porsche — the brand that could seemingly…
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