Toyota has revealed the new Land Cruiser recently, it’ll sit at the top of the company’s SUV range and being built on a brand new platform, new engine options, new four wheel drive system and new suspension options. However, Toyota will not be bringing it to the UK or any other area of Western Europe. With the new engine options, Toyota is offering two V6 engines, one a 3.5-litre petrol […]
Mazda has announced this week that it is planning on launching 13 new electric car models by 2025, with that including not just pure BEV vehicles but hybrids and plug-in hybrids. Throughout the world, the need to move away from combustion based vehicles is becoming more and more important and in the UK, there will be a ban from 2030 for any new combustion cars to be sold, with 2035 […]
Like other major cities around the country, Edinburgh is now going to implementing a low emissions zone or LEZ. The city is planing on putting this into practice come 2022 and will join Bath, Birmingham, London and Oxford in having these zones. The LEZ zone bans all non-Euro 6 diesel vehicles from the area from spring 2022 as well as all petrol vehicles that don’t meet Euro 4 emissions standards. This also […]
Hyundai this week has revealed the pricing for the new upcoming Hyundai i20 N hot hatch, something in similar size and power to the raining champion of the small hot hatch world, the Ford Fiesta ST. Hyundai is going head to head with Ford with this one, taxing some inspiration form the i20 World Rally Championship car. Powering the i20 N is a new engine, a 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder with […]
Back in April, Apple announced Podcasts Subscriptions for its official Apple Podcasts app and that it would be launching soon, well this week as of Tuesday 15th June the new service is available with a large selection of paid shows, channels and more. Creators of shows can opt to offer a paid version on the Podcasts app with monthly payments which go through Apple’s IAP model, of which they get […]
Apple discontinued the original larger HomePod back in March this year and at the time, it said while it would be kept on sale, any existing stock would not be replaced. As of this week in the US, the HomePod is now being listed as “out of stock” completely, whereas in the UK it is not available for delivery, just local pickup at some retail stores. Sales of the larger […]
Ford announced the new entry level truck, the Maverick last week which is the company’s new smaller pickup, sitting on the same platform as the Bronco Sport and in size, sitting below the the Ranger. The company is looking to expand its rollout of electric vehicles and is aiming to have 40% all electric sales by 2030 in the US. However, while Ford is expanding into all electric pickup trucks […]
Rockstar has announced today that later this year, the GTA Online service for older gaming consoles is being shut down. Come the 16th December 2021 the online multiplayer section of Grand Theft Auto V will no longer be available for those users on consoles from two generations ago. However, Rockstar has been keen to point out that the local story mode of the game will be unaffected – it is just the […]
BMW has announced today that it has partnered up with RingGo to offer its parking app on the integrated iDrive head units on its new cars. The RingGo app offers users to pay for parking without the need for a separate phone app or using cash. BMW is only offering the app on newer models running iDrive 7 or later and it’ll be installed on all BMW systems built after […]
Microsoft is getting ready to launch its xCloud game streaming service on iOS soon, but through Safari due to Apple’s restrictions on this type of app. Microsoft has been testing the service in beta with a small subset of users but Microsoft has now said that it is planning to launch xCloud in a matter of weeks. xCloud doesn’t have an official app on iOS, due to how Apple restricts […]
