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Electric Mini Cooper S JWC spotted in Germany

15 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Mini is going all-electric from 2025 and this, the car you see here, is going to be the top of the line electric bullet. It's the new Mini Cooper S JCW, except it is powered entirely by electricity. The petrol-powered JCW delivers 228 horsepower so...

Tesla may sue you if you flip your Cybertruck... or not

15 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Literally less than a day ago, Tesla announced it was ready to sue customers for flipping their low-vin Cybertruck. Mind you, the American automaker has now done a complete 180 and removed all references to 'flipping' the truck from its press materi...

Thinking of flipping your Cybertruck? Think again

13 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Soon-to-be Cybertruck owners might be tempted to flip their Cybertruck for a profit. Don't do that. Probably not a smart idea. Supercar makers routinely do what they can to prevent buyers from doing this, usually with a no-resale clause, but this is...

The Honda Prelude is back! But there's a catch

26 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

It's back! The Honda Prelude is back. And it's a hybrid, not an EV. However, there's a couple of things that got me worried. First, this is a concept, and yes a production model should follow, according to Honda, but the question is WH...

This Tesla Model S has been to the moon and back

15 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

An old-ish, robust diesel is usually considered the best option if you wanna buy a car and drive it till the end of time. But the truth of the matter, and we'll see more of this in the future, electric cars are also great at that. Electric cars...

The good news is your Porsche is getting an infotainment upgrade, the bad news is... your Porsche is getting an infotainment upgrade

14 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

We gotta get used to it. Your iPhone or Android phone regularly tells you an upgrade is available and you postpone it, ignore it but sooner or later you're going to give in because the notifications just won't stop. It's the same with cars, which can...

Latest Renault family car looks like any other SUV

12 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Italian car influencer Silvia Terraneo spotted a new Renault SUV wearing camo in Milan and to be honest, we're not sure what to make of it. Renault is working on the new Captur, which is what this is, and while the vehicle we see here looks argua...

Meet the Furrion - the world’s first exo-skeleton racing machine

4 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

The enormous and quite frankly scary-looking robotic spider is called the Furrion. It is a human-powered exo-skeleton and, should the world ever succumb to the inevitable zombie apocalypse, you could easily use this to run away from the zombies. Or...

13 years ago today, this happened

10 Jun 2023 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted

13 years ago today I drove my first press car. It was also my first right-hand drive and of course my first electric car. I'm very proud of that because back then, no other journalist / media person I knew had even heard of Tesla, especially in Ital...

Remember the Tesla - Top Gear debacle?

10 Jun 2023 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

It's been over ten years, and there have been no new developments, so this will feel a bit out of place, but I still wanted to talk about it 'cause I was watching a YouTube video about it. Over ten years ago, closer to fifteen actually, ex-BBC and P...