New Songs by BCG – Nowhere to Be & Apex Thrill

Sometimes driving isn’t about getting anywhere. It’s about feeling something. These two new tracks are for those moments when the road matters more than the destination.

There are drives we all remember that had no purpose whatsoever. No sat-nav. No timetable. Just fuel in the tank, music playing, and a road stretching out ahead. That feeling of freedom, flow, and quiet joy is hard to explain, but it’s exactly what I’ve been exploring with my latest music. These songs aren’t about cars as objects, but about driving as an experience. While I’ve had a hand in shaping the lyrics and direction, the final songs and visuals are AI-generated, using the technology as a creative collaborator.

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BrownCarGuy December 2025 Round-Up

The month the car world quietly lost its nerve. December wasn’t about mince pies and nostalgia – it was about power, control, and where the future of driving is really heading

December usually winds the year down gently. Not this time. Instead, the car world spent the final weeks of 2025 quietly reshuffling the furniture, double-checking the locks, and pretending everything’s absolutely fine while the walls creaked. Deadlines moved. CEOs disappeared. Regulations softened. Tech firms flexed. Governments hedged. And drivers, once again, were told it was all “for their own good”.

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Driverless Chaos, Insurance Mortgages & Other Car Predictions for 2026

Cars that drive themselves, insurance that costs more than the car, and progress that appears to have misplaced the steering wheel – welcome to 2026

The future has arrived. Not with a heroic fanfare or a cinematic fly-through of a gleaming metropolis, but more like a confused relative turning up late to Christmas dinner wearing mismatched socks and asking if anyone’s got the Wi-Fi password. Because the trouble with the future is this: it never arrives the way the sci-fi promised. There are no flying cars. No elegant solutions. No perfectly optimised utopia. Instead, we’ve been handed a series of half-finished ideas, each more complicated than the last, and told they’re all part of a journey.

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2026 Is the Real Deadline: Why Cool Petrol Cars Are Dying Now (Not in 2030)

Everyone’s watching 2030, but it’s Euro 7, GSR2 and new rules that are quietly killing off cool petrol cars years earlier

For years now, motorists have been told the same soothing bedtime story: “Don’t worry. You’ve got until 2030.”

Plenty of time, apparently. Time to save. Time to decide. Time to enjoy one last glorious petrol-powered hurrah before the lights go out and the chargers take over. Except… that story is nonsense.

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Toyota C-HR PHEV GR Sport (223bhp) Review: Everything You Need to Know Before Buying

The Toyota C-HR has grown up, plugged in and gone premium – but does the range-topper still have the spark that made the original so memorable?

I’ve always had a soft spot for the Toyota C-HR. When the original arrived, it felt like a small act of rebellion from a brand better known for playing things safe. It was sharp, angular, unapologetically different, and crucially, it didn’t try to hide its personality. Better still, in its early years you could even buy one with a petrol engine and a manual gearbox, complete with rev-matching. A crossover that actually wanted to be driven. That alone made it stand out.

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Exclusive BrownCarGuy Giveaway – Buy My Books & Win These!

Some things money just can’t buy

Like these stunning, limited-edition BrownCarGuy keyrings and lapel pin badges – beautifully crafted, with gold-tone finishes, smooth contours, and unmistakable petrolhead presence. Custom-made by my brilliant friends and sponsors at Design5IT.co.uk, these shiny collectibles are everything I love – cool, car-themed, and totally exclusive.

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AI, Cars and the Great Reality Wobble

How artificial intelligence is reshaping automotive design, marketing, media – and whether any of us know what’s real anymore

Everything looks real. Until it isn’t. Cars, content, even people are now being designed, edited and improved by artificial intelligence – and the automotive world may never look the same again. If you’ve found yourself squinting at your phone lately thinking “Hang on… is that real?”, congratulations. You are officially living in the age of artificial intelligence.

Not the flying-cars, robot-butlers kind. No. This is the more unsettling version. The one where cars are being designed by algorithms, photos are being “improved” beyond recognition, videos are faked convincingly enough to fool journalists, and voices can be cloned while their owners are fast asleep. Welcome to the great reality wobble.

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22/12/2025 0

AI, Cars and What’s Real Anymore? Bond, Bots and the Lotus That Refuses to Die

Reality is now optional; cars feel increasingly fictional; James Bond belongs to Amazon; and the Lotus Esprit has returned to mess with our heads

Somewhere between the fifth AI-generated video you didn’t trust and the third car launch you instantly forgot, it dawned on us: we might be living in the uncanny valley… and it’s a charged congestion zone!

That unsettling sense of digital déjà vu is where this latest BCG Podcast begins. I’m joined by Sy from Drivers Union, and together we tumble headfirst into a bonkers tangled conversation about AI, cars, car culture, Bond, books, events, identity and the creeping suspicion that none of us quite know what’s real anymore – including ourselves.

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The Great CEO Reshuffle: Why Car Bosses Are Quietly Hitting the Brakes

Car CEOs were replaced in 2025 – and it wasn’t because the industry is winning

Something significant is happening at the very top of the global car industry, and it isn’t loud, dramatic or accompanied by the usual marketing fanfare. There are no slick launch events, no bold vision statements, no glossy videos promising to reinvent mobility as we know it. Instead, there is a quiet but unmistakable pattern emerging: car company bosses are leaving, being replaced, or stepping aside, and the people taking their seats look nothing like the rockstar executives of just a few years ago.

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BrownCarGuy Books!

Three Highly Acclaimed books by BrownCarGuy available Now on Amazon

A fictional all-action political thriller (The ULEZ Files) which has had tremendous reviews on Amazon (and accurately predicted Pay-Per-Mile); a collection of 13 short stories I’ve written over 20 years – covering cars, sci-fi and the human condition (Quantum Races); plus how to do, what I do – a semi-autobiographical guide to becoming a car journalist and influencer (How to be an Automotive Content Creator). Buy them on Amazon or read on Kindle Unlimited now!

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