Usually, a facelifted car is, well, just facelifted. Not the updated Polestar 2 though. The redesigned exterior – which reflects the design language premiered by Polestar 3 – may be on the subtle side of things but it is an entirely different story under the surface. The most important updates to the 2024 Polestar 2 …
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Audi has officially taken the wrap off the fourth model in the Sphere models, a crossover study with electric drive and Quattro called Activesphere Concept (stylized as activesphere).
While we were still reeling in from the wonderful CES last week, across the Pacific, in Tokyo something exciting was being announced for fans of JDM and Initial D at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2023 (January 13-15).
Three years ago, Sony surprised the world with a concept car it named Sony VISION-S. The car was supposed to be a platform to showcase Sony’s technology for automobiles. But a year later, it underwent public road testing in Europe and finally, in 2022, it decided that it is actually going to make a car …
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At last year’s CES, BMW made headlines with an e-ink-wrapped car, the BMW iX Flow, that can change patterns. That was monochrome. This year, also at CES, the German automaker revealed yet another headlining concept car, also wrapped in e-ink but this time it changes colors. Called the BMW i Vision Dee, this radical concept …
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Ken Block is more than a professional rally car driver. He is also synonymous with Gymkhana, a series of automotive action movies. Gymkhana in this instance, for those who don’t already know, does not involve horses. Though it always involved a lot of horsepowers. For the longest time, the star machines of Ken Block’s Gymkhana …
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If you dig the idea of a retro-futuristic look for automobiles, then you may want to check out Wiesmann’s Project Thunderball. OK. Maybe it is not futuristic per se but it is electric drive means it is futuristic (no?) and this yet-to-be-named so-called “world’s first all-electric convertible roadster” definitely has a retro vibe in it. …
Abarth, the Italian performance car maker, has taken its first step into electrification starting with the Abarth 500e. Based on the Fiat 500 electric, the new 2023 Abarth 500e boasts improved weight distribution, better torque, and a wider wheelbase, and it is, of course, faster.
Romania automaker Dacia recently revealed a very cool and super interesting concept car called Manifesto Concept. As probably have already noticed, Manifesto is unlike any Dacia automobile. It is designed from the ground up for exploration of the great outdoors, an off-road buggy designed for going on off the beaten paths.
Is the future really all about autonomous vehicles as we have seen in movies like I, Robot (2004, 20th Century Fox), and Minority Report (2002, 20th Century Fox)? I can’t say for sure but judging from what many automakers and non-automakers like Kyocera and Huawei are working on, it may be the case. Perhaps, the …
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