A dedicated space for the industry’s most pressing controversies. We break down conflicting perspectives on technical, economic, and market-driven topics, providing a critical look at the arguments that divide the automotive community.
Ecolomafia: your lungs have a price America fired the shot. Not a European regulator. Not a Brussels commissioner with a mandate and a press office. A federal agency in Washington, working from test data, put a notice of violation on the desk of the largest carmaker on the planet in September 2015 and blew open … Read more
Software Defined Vehicle: The Judgment Day Car It arrives naked, at night, inside a ball of light that burns a circle into the pavement. It walks up to some guys drinking at an overlook and asks for their clothes. One of them laughs. Ten seconds later one is dead and the other is running. What … Read more
German Auto Industry Crisis: The Hangover, Wolfsburg Edition The suite is destroyed. There’s a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, a mattress speared on a statue outside, and a stolen LVPD cruiser sitting in the valet lane. Four guys on the floor, none of them remember anything, one is missing a tooth, … Read more
CEMA Michelin Almería: The Secret Tire Lab of Europe If you drive Michelin tires on your truck, your tractor, your farming rig, your mining equipment, or your everyday sedan, there’s a very real chance those tires were validated in a stretch of Spanish desert most Americans have never heard of. Not in Ohio. Not in … Read more
All-in-one platforms: the car is already an appliance On July 16, 2026, Geely packed sixteen functions into a 75-kilogram box and called it Thunder. Twelve are hardware — motor, controller, reducer, DC-DC converter, onboard charger, power distribution, high- and low-voltage battery management, vehicle control, thermal management, active pre-charge and power-domain gateway — and four are … Read more
Divergent 3D: The Hypercar Was the Bait, the Business Is Missiles The Czinger 21C dropped jaws. 1,250 horsepower, parts that look like bones, a two-million-dollar missile printed layer by layer. Everybody looked at the car. Nobody looked at what stood behind it. And behind it was the real plan. That car wasn’t built to be … Read more
MA-FIA Chapter VII: Balance of Performance, or how to punish the kid who did their homework Chris Harris once said that the best motor racing is the kind where the best car, driven by the best driver, wins. Old-school logic. The kind of thing Clarkson would nod at while James May rolled his eyes. Here’s … Read more
You Can Stall Ferrari’s New Manual. Nothing Underneath It Is Real Stall it and it kangaroos. Dump the clutch like a learner and the V12 dies with a lurch, just like it should. The lever snicks, the pedal fights back with a real 15kg of weight, and every nerve in your body signs off on … Read more
The VAMTAC AX4 isn’t a new truck. It’s a bet — and Urovesa just placed it in Paris Jeremy Clarkson once said that the moment a company replaces a product everyone loves is the moment you find out what they’re really made of. He was talking about cars, but it applies just as well to … Read more
The new Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale: tribute or corporate accounting? When the new 33 Stradale was unveiled at Monza in September 2023, most of the motoring press did what the motoring press is paid to do: it gushed. Top Gear talked about a return to form. Carscoops called it a stunning flagship. The Goodwood crowd … Read more
Bosch, MAHLE and AVL: Europe hasn’t quit combustion Across five articles, NEC has been telling you how the combustion engine game is being played in 2026. If you’ve reached this one, you probably hold a simple idea in your head: Europe has surrendered. The Chinese push ahead, the Japanese hold the line, the Saudis manoeuvre … Read more
M Neue Klasse: The Day the M Lost Its Voice There’s a noise you can’t put into a spec sheet. If you grew up watching an E30 M3 attack a touring car grid, or you’ve ever stood at the side of a track and heard an E46 M3 scream past at full chat, you know … Read more
