BrownCarGuy February 2026 Round-Up

From trench-eating DeLoreans to Euro 7 tremors, February proved drivers are under pressure from every direction.

February felt like the month everything collided. Infrastructure crumbling. Car crime spiralling. Tax shifts tightening the screws. Regulators quietly advancing. Meanwhile, EVs are getting quicker, sharper and more convincing – and petrol’s survival window could be shorter than we thought. It was a month of warning signs. Some literal. Some legislative. Some philosophical.

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BrownCarGuy January 2026 Round-Up

From daily-driven EV roadsters to AI policing, vanishing bargains and why driving now feels fundamentally different

January usually eases us into the year. A reset. A breather.

Instead, 2026 arrived with a quiet tightening of screws. New rules slipped in without fanfare. Algorithms began judging drivers. Affordable cars continued their slow extinction. And beneath it all sat an uncomfortable realisation – driving isn’t being banned, it’s being redesigned until it barely resembles what we grew up with.

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