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BYD Beats BMW, Mercedes and Audi on Reliability, New European Data Shows
I wrote about J.D. Power's own dependability data recently, the study that tracks how many problems owners report on three-year-old cars in the US. That got me wondering how Chinese brands actually compare to European ones on the same measure ...
Nio’s Certified Used Cars in Europe Look a Lot Like Stock Clearance
Nio Netherlands and Nio Deutschland pushed their "Nio Certified" used car programme hard this week, both posting the campaign to their market specific LinkedIn accounts within an hour of each other. The pitch is a fair one on paper, a ...
China Has More Than 100 EV Brands, and Most of Them Are About to Disappear
China currently has more than 100 companies building electric cars. That single number is why you'll so often read that competition there is brutal, a line I've used myself in passing in a few of my own pieces without ever ...
Opel’s Next Corsa Won’t Arrive Until 2028, but It’ll Be Fully Electric and Cheaper
Opel's best selling model is about to lose its petrol and hybrid versions, and buyers will need to wait a year longer than planned to get it. The next generation Corsa, originally due in 2027, has been pushed back to ...
MG Confirms the IM5 and IM6 Are Coming to Denmark
MG has confirmed that its IM5 saloon and IM6 SUV will launch in Denmark, extending the reach of what the brand describes as its most advanced electric lineup to date. The announcement came from MG Motor Denmark on August 19, ...
Comparisons
Car Safety
BYD Beats BMW, Mercedes and Audi on Reliability, New European Data Shows
I wrote about J.D. Power's own dependability data recently, the study that tracks how many problems owners report on three-year-old cars in the US. That got me wondering how Chinese brands actually compare to European ones on the same measure ...
Car Dependability Just Hit a Three-Year Low, and Software Is Why
J.D. Power's 2026 U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study came out in February, and it recorded the worst score since the study was redesigned in 2022. Cars owned for three years now average 204 problems per 100 vehicles, up from 202 the ...
Touchscreen Car Controls Are Getting More Distracting, Not Less
Car interiors have never had more screen space, and drivers have never spent longer looking at it instead of the road. That's the uncomfortable conclusion from a new Swedish test that repeated a 2022 experiment on ten current car models, ...
China Just Set the Rules for Self Driving Cars, and Tesla’s FSD Doesn’t Meet Them Yet
Tesla spent months trying to get FSD deeper into the Chinese market, but the goalposts just moved. According to a South China Morning Post report, analysts now say broader Beijing approval for Tesla's higher level autonomous driving remains a distant ...
Euro NCAP’s 2026 Protocol Is Better, But Five Stars Still Doesn’t Mean Real Safety
Euro NCAP exists to stop people dying on European roads, and for most of the past two decades the five star rating has done real work, pushing manufacturers toward stronger structures and better restraint systems. But somewhere along the way, ...