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Paris Motor Show 2026: Can These Concepts Save Europe’s Car Industry?

What if Europe’s greatest weapon against China is not battery technology or lower prices? What if it is the ability to make people fall in love with cars?

Paris Motor Show 2026 feels like the beginning of Europe’s great automotive fightback. Then again, it could also be the automotive equivalent of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. For the first time in years, a major motor show made me stop, stare and actually say: “Whoa, that is pretty cool.” Paris was overflowing with outrageous concepts, evocative names and European manufacturers that appeared to be rediscovering their personalities.

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EV Sales Surge, China Tops UK Sales: What Happened in September 2026?

The Jaecoo 7 topped September sales, almost 100,000 EVs were registered and Chery’s brands approached a combined 10% market share. Yet EV uptake still trails the government mandate

Something extraordinary has happened in the British car market. The country’s best-selling new car in September was Chinese, almost 100,000 fully electric cars were registered in a single month, plug-in hybrids surged by more than 55% and Tesla placed two models in the overall UK top five.

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Are Volvo, Audi and Land Rover Becoming Just Badges?

Are Volvo, Audi and Land Rover losing their identity as shared platforms and Chinese partnerships reshape some of motoring’s most famous brands?

When you buy a Volvo, how much Volvo do you expect to get? It sounds like a ridiculous question, I know. You walk into a Volvo showroom, buy a car with Volvo written on it and naturally assume that the people behind that badge have decided how it should work, how it should drive and how it should protect your family.

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Buying a Jaecoo 7 Is “Betraying Britain”? Seriously?

Buying a Jaecoo is betraying Britain claims Telegraph
A Telegraph columnist says Jaecoo buyers are “betraying Britain”. I examine the counterfeit comparison, Land Rover’s Jeep origins and the Chery connection, and ask why ordinary motorists should apologise for buying a car they can afford

Apparently, buying a car you can afford could now qualify as betraying Britain. Particularly if that car is a Jaecoo 7 and you’ve had the audacity to enjoy its resemblance to something considerably more expensive. A Telegraph column suggests that motorists who cannot afford a Range Rover should accept their position in the financial pecking order and stop embarrassing themselves with a Chinese alternative. What the hell? Really?

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JLR Confirms 4,000 Job Cuts: Is Britain’s Biggest Carmaker in Crisis?

JLR Job Cuts
Jaguar Land Rover will cut around 4,000 global jobs while seeking £1.7 billion in savings. Are tariffs, China and Jaguar’s luxury-EV gamble pushing Britain’s biggest carmaker into crisis?

Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed that it intends to cut around 4,000 jobs globally over the next two years, amounting to nearly 10 per cent of its worldwide workforce. The redundancies will primarily affect salaried, management and other non-manufacturing roles, with JLR hoping to achieve as many of the reductions as possible voluntarily. The company has yet to reveal precisely which sites, departments or countries will carry the greatest burden.

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Ferrari Luce Sells for $40 Million at Monterey, But There’s a Catch

A Ferrari Luce sold for $40 million at Monterey. Here’s why the charity auction result says less about its real value than headlines suggest

Someone has just spent $40 million on the world’s most expensive toaster. That is the sensational headline emerging from Monterey Car Week, where the first production chassis of Ferrari’s controversial electric Luce crossed the block at RM Sotheby’s.

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Scrap Your Petrol Car for an EV? Does the Claim Actually Add Up?

A provocative new study says replacing even a nearly new petrol car with an EV can reduce carbon emissions. The maths is credible, but real cars, real owners and the global motor industry make the answer more complicated

Imagine you own a perfectly good petrol car. It works, it is reliable and it might be only a year or two old. According to a startling new scientific study, the environmentally responsible thing could be to scrap it and buy a brand-new electric car. Yes, really. New Scientist summed up the finding with the wonderfully provocative headline: “It’s good for the planet to scrap a new petrol car and buy electric.”

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Car Wars: America Profits, Europe Falters, Has China Already Won?

The Car Wars

Detroit is rediscovering the immense profits in petrol-powered trucks, Europe is cutting jobs and cherished models while funding a painful transition, and China is building electric cars at a scale and price the old guard cannot match. Who is winning the Car Wars?

Have you seen the news from the car industry lately? There is a very clear trend emerging, and it looks like some have played a solid hand while others are flailing about trying to find a way out of the quagmire. Or is this really a rabbit and tortoise situation?

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China’s £7,000 Classic Car Body Shells: Brilliant, Fake or Unsafe?

Chinese classic car body shells
A vast factory in China is stamping brand-new bodies and panels for the Toyota AE86, Datsun 240Z, Ford Bronco and other classics. It could save the cars petrolheads love, but what about quality, identity, legality and safety?

Imagine ordering a brand-new Toyota AE86 bodyshell for around £7,000. Fresh steel, a perfect floor, an unblemished roof and not a single crusty sill, suspicious patch or wheelarch apparently reconstructed from newspaper, filler and the lid of an old biscuit tin.

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Exclusive First Look: MG’s Bold New Future! GO! Hatch, Cyber SUV and Self-Driving Tech Revealed

MG tech Day Go! Concept Cyber Concept
Ahead of their global debut, I got exclusive access to MG’s future plans, including two striking new concept cars, next-generation hybrid technology, semi-solid-state batteries and autonomous driving systems that could soon be reversing themselves out of dead ends

If you still think MG is simply the company making affordable electric family cars, think again. I was invited to MG’s London headquarters for an exclusive technology preview, and what unfolded wasn’t merely another product presentation. It was a statement of intent. From a cheeky little electric hatch that wears its British heritage proudly on its sleeve, to a dramatic performance SUV concept, plus a roadmap for hybrid powertrains, semi-solid-state batteries and autonomous driving, MG is making it abundantly clear that it wants to be seen as far more than just a value brand.

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