From design shake ups to tariff wars, 2025 delivered one of the most chaotic and transformative years the motoring world has seen in decades
Some years quietly tick along. 2025 did not. 2025 threw its toys out of the pram, snapped a gear lever, set off the traction control light and still expected us to carry on like nothing happened. This was the year motoring veered off the planned EV motorway and tore down a bumpy B road instead. A year of handbrake U turns, big surprises, global chaos and a few moments of outright comedy. If you felt like the car world was changing faster than you could refresh a news feed, you were not imagining it.
So here are the Top 10 biggest automotive shockwaves of 2025.
