Chris Thompson

The new 2024 Toyota C-HR is the 11th car tested against the new 2023-2025 ANCAP criteria and the good news for prospective buyers is it scored a maximum five stars. The style-focused small hybrid SUV from Toyota scored comfortably above the five-star threshold in all four categories. The Toyota C-HR scored higher than 80 per cent for both Adult and Child Occupant Protection, Vulnerable Road User Protection and Safety Assist tests - one of only a couple of new cars to do so under current criteria…

Nissan just can’t seem to get enough of electrified concept cars, having revealed another quartet of ‘new energy vehicles’ (NEVs) at the 2024 Beijing Auto Show.With a focus on “a new Nissan for a new era in China”, the Japanese brand announced a fresh business plan for the “rapidly changing Chinese market” with an extra EV coming by 2026 - the total by then now up to five.The four NEVs revealed under Nissan’s ‘The Arc’ business plan are named Epoch, Epic, Era and Evo, the first may cause confus…

In the Northern Hemisphere, it is springtime again: Time to kick off the annual rituals of sprucing up the old homestead, or of convincing yourself that this is the year that you will finally gain the upper hand over nature, which if left unchecked will spend the next six months attempting to destroy all your […]

I’m not going to look this up, but I assume there have been far fewer found-footage-style films in the romantic comedy genre than there’ve been in horror. We could fix that, by God. Heaven knows there are enough moving-picture content mills out there. We could hire up Rachel McAdams and Matthew McConaughey and stitch together […]

The GLC43 is an important variant for AMG, so we attended the Australian launch to find out how good it is.

If you’re even slightly interested in electric cars, chances are you’ve heard that solid state batteries are the future, coming to save us from range anxiety and the slow decline in power retention that current lithium-ion batteries face.But that might not be what really happens if senior drivetrain and battery engineers from Audi are correct in their predictions.While it seems like some brands are holding back releasing a stable of EVs before the advent of mass production solid state batteries,…

This is the future... of Audi, at least. It’s not so much the Q6 e-tron itself, but what’s under it. The ‘Premium Platform Electric’ which it rides on will underpin future Audi models as well as others from Porsche, which co-developed it.

Braden Montgomery (scion, evil)

Sunday, July 21, 2024, was truly a momentous day. A historic day! It was commanded by the mysterious wisdom of the cosmos that you and I should bear witness; set aside your partisan interests today and allow yourself to be humbled by that honor. You—you—were trusted by the very tides of history to record with […]

Ford is no longer planning to go electric-only by the end of the decade in Europe as it originally planned, following its North American arm in shifting focus back to internal combustion engines (ICEs).Marin Gjaja, Chief Operating Officer for the brand’s ‘Ford Model e’ electric car division, told UK motoring outlet Autocar this week the plan to be an all-electric brand in Europe by 2030 “was too ambitious” and a renewed focus on hybrid or “multi-energy” drivetrains is on the cards.A mix of uncer…