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New speed records: Xiaomi SU7 Ultra gets the green light for Europe
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Xiaomi SU7 Ultra: from Nürburgring headline to fully road-legal in Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What looked, only recently, like little more than...
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Snow chains: Dealers often fail to mention these annoying drawbacks.
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Snow chains are widely treated as essential kit the moment the snow settles and mountain passes turn properly wintry. In...
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This driving habit helps save fuel.
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The lights flip to green. The car ahead launches as if it’s making a getaway: engine flaring, a brief sprint,...
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Drivers should shift to neutral and release the clutch at traffic lights to protect the gearbox and clutch in the long term.
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You’re sitting at the lights, almost without noticing it: fingers drumming on the steering wheel, one foot half irritated, half...
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Frozen engine, burst radiator: Lack of antifreeze can seriously damage your car.
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Many drivers think about winter tyres, an ice scraper and door seals, yet the cooling system is often ignored. That’s...
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Mercedes-AMG GT 63: its buyers would not even glance at Porsche
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The Mercedes-AMG GT 63 Pro arrives in that narrow band where outright performance, serious money and status all intersect. From...
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Heavy snow expected starting tonight as authorities warn drivers to stay home while businesses push for normal operations
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The first flakes began drifting down just after 4 p.m. - light, harmless snow, the sort that has children glued...
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Why range-extended electric vehicles are likely to multiply on our roads
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Into this already uneasy landscape arrives a technology many people had written off as finished: the range‑extended electric vehicle -...
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For its 80th anniversary, this French site that builds monstrous 320‑tonne engines is getting a “nice gift” from its German owner Everllence
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On France’s Atlantic seaboard, an old industrial site once synonymous with brute diesel power is quietly positioning itself for a...
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Zeekr 7 GT (2026): the cut‑price electric shooting brake aiming at BMW
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Zeekr, Geely’s premium electric offshoot, is lining up an ambitious European expansion centred on a dramatic new estate car designed...
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Nuclear fuels: uranium, MOX, HALEU, thorium
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Behind arguments about nuclear power stations sits a quieter, more strategic issue: the fuels themselves-how they are manufactured, where they...
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One of the most reliable brands in the world has admitted it, electric cars are ultimately not their goal
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The briefing ought to have been a non-event: tidy ranks of chairs, identical water bottles lined up on tables, and...