Cars

Tesla stops taking orders for Model S and Model X in all areas apart from North America

Tesla has announced this week that it has now stopped taking any new orders for the Model S and Model X for countries outside of North America. For those areas, the company is saying that deliveries for existing orders should be fulfilled in the second half of next year. Tesla has been sending out communications to this customers who have ordered the Model S and Model X in the UK […]

All electric Dacia Spring has failed the Euro NCAP test

The new Dacia Spring might be coming to the UK sometime soon, but it is already on sale in mainland Europe. The small all electric city car is one of the cheapest full sized electric cars on sale in Europe, at €89 a month in France with a purchase price of around £10,500 when converted. Range is 143 miles from the 26.8kWh battery pack and 44bhp and a top speed of […]

Škoda announces new Karoq with updates styling and new tech

Škoda has recently introduced a new updated version of its smaller SUV, the Karoq. Škoda has made some changes to the technology that the car comes with as well as some exterior design changes. On the outside the LED headlights are slimmer with a new body coloured rear spoiler at the back. The fuel tank also has a new more aerodynamically efficient design. The Karoq is more sustainable than before […]

Ford stops taking reservations for all electric F-150 Lightning

Ford has now stopped taking any new reservations for its new, all electric F-150 pickup truck. Ford has had 200,000 orders for the new truck and has now officially stopped taking new orders. Jim Farley, Ford CEO broke the news on CNBC when speaking to Jim Cramer on the show. “We are completely oversubscribed with our battery electric vehicles, Lightning especially. We had to stop reservations we got so many, […]

Mazda announces new Toyota Yaris based Mazda 2 Hybrid

Mazda has announced the new Mazda 2 Hybrid, which will go on sale here in the UK next year. If this car looks familiar, it should be as it is essentially a Toyota Yaris. This comes from a new partnership between the two companies and it’ll be sold alongside the traditional petrol powered Mazda 2. It looks like Mazda didn’t have a full hybrid power system in place yet, as […]

Mazda MX-5 due to receive new update next year

Mazda is set to reveal a new updated version of the MX-5 sports car after a new potential update was hinted at on the Japanese version of the company’s website. Also to further add fuel to the fire, the current model has now been removed from sale. Mazda Japan has said the following: “With the exception of some specifications, sales of the current model have been discontinued. The announcement of […]

Toyota announces new hydrogen powered GR Yaris concept

Toyota has unveiled a new concept version of the already popular GR Yaris which is powered by hydrogen, but still using a combustion engine, rather than making a full EV. Toyota showed off the concept at the company’s annual Kenshiki forum. This also isn’t the first time Toyota has put this engine in a car when it is powered by hydrogen, already the company has made a Corolla for touring […]

Suzuki will launch its first electric car in 2025

So far Suzuki hasn’t really got much into the electric car game, the company so far hasn’t had to need it to bring its average fleet CO2 emissions down as the majority of its models are very light had have small engines. However, all of Suzuki’s model now in the UK are available, or only come with a 48v mild hybrid system. Suzuki is also only able to offer full […]

Seven seater Dacia Jogger is now up for pre-order in the UK

Dacia announced the new Jogger back in September this year, a new seven seater offering from the company and it is now the cheapest seven seater car on sale in the UK. As of today, Dacia has made the Jogger available to pre-order with prices starting at £14,995. Three trim levels are available and the first deliveries are expected to start in the first half of next year. The Dacia […]

All electric Dacia Spring is looking ‘very positive’ for UK launch

We reported back in June this year that Dacia might be bringing its all electric Spring hatchback to the UK, with a decision to be made soon. The budget EV is on sale in the majority of Europe and has already been proved popular, with 40,000 orders been taken in eight months. However, during this time Dacia has still been in the ‘making a decision’ phase, but this week Denis […]