Marques Brownlee reviews a $42K Chinese EV (Xiaomi SU7) that feels like a $75K+ car — 660 hp, 0-60 in 2.8s, Apple-grade software
MKBHD: a $42K Chinese EV that feels like $75K+ — one of the most impressive cars he has ever reviewed. Open on X →
VW’s ID. Buzz range-extender problem exposes the hidden cost of a pure EV shell
Volkswagen looked at giving the ID. Buzz a gas backup engine and ran out of room. That packaging failure explains why its next commercial vans need a more flexible layout
4 minHardware 3 is the number that breaks Tesla’s software-defined promise
Tesla’s autonomy story now has a hardware problem: cars sold with one compute promise may not be able to run the software that promise requires.
4 minThe Range Rover GT is not an electric SUV. That is the point.
JLR’s fifth Range Rover model breaks the brand’s oldest packaging rule: height. The low electric GT matters because it trades command seating for EV aero, quiet luxury,a
4 minThe RB17 is not chasing nostalgia. Its V10 is the product.
Red Bull’s first hypercar didn’t need a V10 to win a spec sheet. It needed one because engine architecture is becoming the sharpest way to make a seven-figure performance
4 minThe robotaxi tell is not the empty driver’s seat. It’s the remote operator crashing anyway.
Tesla’s reported Houston remote-operation crash and Zoox’s fire-scene OTA recall point to the same hard truth: robotaxi companies are shipping operations systems, not ego
4 minFord’s $30,000 electric truck starts with the line it refuses to use
Ford’s next affordable EV truck matters less for its target price than for the Universal EV Production System underneath it: an assembly-tree bet that treats factory flow
4 minThe new Charger’s problem isn’t losing the Hemi. It’s carrying more weight than a CX-90.
Dodge is teasing a stronger six-cylinder Charger, but the scale reading explains the car better than the nostalgia fight: modern muscle now has to engineer around mass.
4 min463 hp explains BMW’s EV plan: Neue Klasse gets the SUVs, the M3 keeps the inline-six
BMW’s 2027 iX3 is the serious Neue Klasse move, but the next gas M3 spy video says the quiet part out loud: Munich is splitting platform modernization from driver worship
4 minThe $6,300 cut is the real 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N upgrade
Hyundai did not make the Ioniq 5 N wilder for 2026. It made the electric performance car easier to buy, easier to charge, and easier to exploit.
4 minVW’s €28,000 ID. Cross is cheap because the clever parts are boring
The Volkswagen ID. Cross reveal matters less for its range number than for the utility hardware VW chose to protect at the bottom of the EV market.
4 minBYD’s Denza Z is not a 911 rival yet. It is a 1,500-hp credibility test.
The Denza Z’s Goodwood reveal says more about BYD’s European performance ambitions than its spec sheet. The hard part is not making an electric supercar quick. It is DAR—
4 minThe two-speed gearbox is the tell in Mercedes’ EV reset
The 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA250+ matters because Mercedes stopped treating EV range as a battery-size problem and put a real gear change back into the car.
4 minThe Slate Truck’s hand-crank windows are the tell
Slate’s small EV pickup is not just a cheap truck. Its real engineering bet is a low-content base vehicle built to become thousands of different trucks after the sale.
4 minThe new MR2 is hiding in a GR Yaris because Toyota still has to solve the hard part
Toyota’s rumored mid-engine MR2 prototype matters because the mule is fighting cooling and aero, not styling. That is the tell that this is a real sports-car architecture
4 min1.5 megawatts is the number that makes the Denza Z more than another EV missile
BYD’s Denza Z has the usual electric-supercar theater: 1,582 hp and a claimed sub-two-second 0–62 mph run. The real engineering tell is the 1.5-megawatt charge claim.
4 minRuf’s 4.4-liter flat-eight is not nostalgia. It is a new moat with a manual gearbox.
Ruf’s 1,000-plus-hp B8 flat-eight is the rare modern performance reveal where the important part is not the output. It is the decision to own the engine architecture.
4 minThe real software-defined car still needs buttons
China’s push for physical safety controls and Audi’s interior rethink point to the same conclusion: the screen-only cockpit was a packaging bet, not progress.
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