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Nvidia isn’t hype for automotive engineers

Nvidia earnings were the most anticipated financial services event of the year. As the world’s most valuable publicly traded company by market capitalization, you…

Pick-up trucks and Tesla-Trump politics

EVs have never been a core issue in American elections. The American auto industry’s Big Three make profits from large pick-up trucks and ladder-frame…

EX30 Twin Motor review

EX30 is Volvo’s sub-R1m EV offering. The Swedish brand has been a pioneering EV marketeer in South African, and this crossover model range is…

Review: Audi Q3 Sportback 35 TFSI Black Edition

Audi started small. Not in terms of ambition, but vehicle size. When Audi established itself as a standalone brand from VW, it had compact…

The F1 risk for Audi

Car companies and F1. There’s no average outcome – either you win or suffer brand depreciation. The allure of is obvious. The glamour, technical…

Review: Ranger Platinum 3.0 V6 4×4 auto

Platinum is an essential metal in automotive design, not just as a brand badge. A crucial part of most exhaust after-treatment systems, platinum helps…

Virtual twins create better cars

Virtual twins are a design concept often seen in persuasive presentations in the automotive industry boardrooms. As legacy OEMs struggle to match the product…

GS3 Emzoom R Style review

GS3 Emzoom. It is another of the new Chinese models that continue to add diversity of choice for local buyers. In a market where…

Dakar dominated by South African built Hilux Evos

Dakar is the world’s most demanding off-road race. And if you sell vehicles with an all-terrain marketing subtext, a Dakar win is invaluable. Occupying…

Elkann to create Jeep and Stellantis Meta(morphosis)

Jeep had a terrible 2024. The iconic all-terrain vehicle brand and crucial profit source for Stellantis saw sales ebb, dealers annoyed, and shifts reduced…

Afeela is Honda’s luxury EV – with Sony tech

Afeela is the latest technology joint venture between legacy Japanese brands, Honda and Sony. As the Japanese car industry tries to reinterpret its context…

Territory 1.8T Titanium 2025 review

Territory 1.8T Titanium proves how much a Ford nameplate can change. Possibly no other model range has altered its positioning so much in South…

New York congestion charge and city cars

The New York congestion charge is now real. Having finally followed the example of London, Stockholm and Singapore by initiating a congestion charge for…

Renault got design right in 2024

People think being a car designer is glamorous, but it’s not. You can work for years, even decades, without ever having one of your…

Nio Firefly brings Galaxy design to compact EVs

Nio might only be a decade old, but like most Chinese car companies, it is boundlessly ambitious. As European, Korean and Japanese brands struggle…

Quartermaster is unquestionably cool – and capable

Ineos has done what Land Rover could not, reviving its original Defender’s spirit. The independently financed British brand has created the fantasy off-road exploration…