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.
IDIADA: Europe’s Best Automotive Lab Hides in Spain, and Even the Spaniards Don’t Talk About It When Chris Harris wants to test a road car at the limit, he heads to the Nürburgring or, if he’s lucky, gets handed the keys at Anglesey. When Top Gear needed a track for Power Laps, they used a … Read more
Audi Nuvolari: The V8 That Buries the Electric Promise Here is a number Audi would rather you forgot: 2021. That was the year Ingolstadt told the world it would launch only electric cars from 2026 onwards. No new combustion. Full stop. The four rings were going battery-only, and anyone clinging to pistons was living in … Read more
Chinese engines: the war Europe didn’t want to see You’ve been told the same story for years. The petrol engine is dying. The future is electric. Internal combustion is the past. Repeated often enough that most people now believe it without checking. So let’s check. While Europe was busy closing engine plants and German manufacturers … Read more
Vision EQXX: Everyone bragged about horsepower. Mercedes drove 750 miles on 201 and won There are two ways to impress someone with a car. The easy way and the hard way. The easy way is big numbers. A thousand horsepower, two thousand, nought to sixty in under two seconds — figures that fit in a … Read more
Rolls-Royce spent 120 years selling silence. A $40,000 Tesla now gives it away free There’s a line Rolls-Royce has repeated for a century, the kind of line Jeremy Clarkson could recite in his sleep: at sixty miles an hour, the loudest thing inside a Rolls is the dashboard clock. It was the whole pitch. The … Read more
Cadillac built a $400,000 temple and forgot you can’t buy your way back to God There’s a thing American luxury keeps doing, and Cadillac just did it harder than anyone in decades. It remembers being great, points at the memory, and asks you to mistake the pointing for the thing itself. The Celestiq is the … Read more
Horse Powertrain: the quiet empire of the engine There’s an industrial empire that controls how half the planet moves around, and you’ve probably never heard its name. It doesn’t put a badge on any car. It runs no television ads. It doesn’t have a LinkedIn fanclub. But the engine in your Renault, your Dacia, your … Read more
The Ferrari Luce Debate: Three Stories Nobody Has Told Together There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a room full of car people when something genuinely divides them. Not the easy noise of “it’s ugly” or “it’s brilliant,” but the harder, quieter business of not actually knowing what you think. The Ferrari … Read more
Mercedes-AMG built an EV that pretends to be a V8. That’s not progress. That’s surrender. There’s a moment in Chris Harris’ video on the original Tesla Roadster where he says something quiet and revealing: the silence is part of the magic. The torque hits, the world tilts, and there’s no shouting, no theatre, no soundtrack. … Read more
How a Tin of Paint Became the Most Powerful Asset in Motorsport Here is a test. Close your eyes and think of Le Mans. Whatever car appeared in your head, I can tell you what colour it was. Pale blue and orange. You thought of a Gulf car. You might not even know the model … Read more
Vision BMW Alpina: They Killed a Sports Brand to Build a Maybach There’s a video Chris Harris filmed years ago in an Alpina B7. He’s on an unrestricted stretch of autobahn, indicated needle past 280 km/h, and he keeps saying the same thing in different ways: this car is doing something the M5 cannot. It … Read more
Jaguar Burned the Ships Before Learning to Swim: An EV Bet at the Worst Possible Moment Clarkson once said, with that lazy contempt only he could pull off, that Jaguar had spent decades being the brand that posh men bought because they couldn’t quite stretch to a Rolls. Cruel, accurate, and missing the point. Jaguar … Read more
