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If you’re considering a sports car for the first time, it’s easy to find yourself dazzled by performance figures like 0–60 mph sprints and top speeds. Perhaps your only criteria while decision-making pertains to handling and horsepower. That’s all fine to consider, but driving high-powered sports cars without experience could lead to disaster. Entry-level sports cars with lower power and better safety ratings are often the best way to introduce yourself to some of the most fun you can have in a vehicle. We composed a list of the safest entry-level sports cars by sifting through heaps of data and…

German company Isar Aerospace has successfully launched Europe’s first entirely commercial orbital rocket. It attempted to achieve the feat last March, but that lasted all of 30 seconds before the vehicle crashed into the sea and exploded. This time the company managed to get the two-stage Spectrum into low Earth orbit from a Norwegian spaceport.“Today, Isar Aerospace opened space from Continental Europe. Launch continues to be the largest bottleneck for the global space industry and from today on, there is a true alternative for commercial and institutional customers … Europe now has sovereign access to space. We have entered into…

With several high-performance and experimental sports cars on his resume, it’s not difficult to understand why General Motors engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov is known as the “father of the Corvette.” The man was so instrumental in the car’s continued development – especially in the 1960s and 1970s – that several more modern Corvettes have been rumored to bear his name. Most recently, we assumed the ZR1X would be called the Zora before Chevy announced its alphanumeric appellation. And yet, the automaker isn’t ready to let the name go. Just five days ago, Chevrolet applied to safeguard the word “Zora” for use…

If your vehicle is older, you might want to check this out. Harry Howitt/Shutterstock CarPlay has become a must-have for many drivers. It’s no surprise, since it makes life so much easier when it comes to accessing your iPhone apps in the car. Navigation, music, messages — all right there on the dashboard. And while there are more than 800 CarPlay-compatible vehicles, you might have one that isn’t on the list. But no, you don’t need to trade in your car. Some portable screens can give you CarPlay for much less. They aren’t quite as good…

Visitors gather outside an entrance to the 2026 Beijing Auto Show. Credit: CnEVPost Following the April 2026 event, the Beijing Auto Show will return in March 2027 as a specialized themed exhibition. Full-scale auto shows will continue to alternate each April, with Beijing hosting in even-numbered years and Shanghai in odd-numbered years. Beijing will host its auto show again in March 2027, less than 1 year after the April 2026 event, but this time as a specialized themed exhibition. A statement published Monday on the Shanghai Auto Show’s official WeChat account confirmed the arrangement, while clarifying that the cities’ full-scale…

Cruisers are sold as a lifestyle, and most buyers buy into that framing completely. Walk into any dealership and you’ll spend far more time circling the bike, admiring the chrome and the stance, than you will actually riding it. That’s just the reality of how motorcycles get purchased — the ones that catch the eye tend to catch the sale. But if you’re the kind of rider who cares more about what a bike does than how it photographs, there’s a different path: the underrated, quietly refined machines that have been honed over years of real-world use. Middleweight Cruisers Prioritize…

The Bugatti Veyron produces 1,001 horses from an 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16 engine, it clears 60 mph in just 2.4 seconds, and it can cost you more than three million bucks. That’s all well and good, but the Lucid Gravity GT-S beats it by nearly 70 hp, and the new Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric blows them both out of the water by another 70 points. We’re not talking about high-end supercars here, we’re talking about family vehicles. Premium family vehicles, sure, but family vehicles nonetheless. When they said electrification would democratize horsepower, they weren’t fooling. The Lucid Gravity Delivers Up To…

Somewhere, a guy in Pit Vipers is recording a Facebook video from the front seat of his pickup claiming that Chinese EVs aren’t just inferior to American V8 iron – they’re unsafe, too. Unfortunately for him, the latest EVs from GAC, Geely, and Leapmotor just aced the brutally demanding Euro NCAP safety tests. While Tesla was giving its truest believers a sneak peek at its new Cybercab on 03SEP, the European New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP) was releasing its latest safety evaluation results, and three new models from China have achieved the group’s maximum five-star safety rating. Oh– I almost forgot:…

Battery technology has advanced considerably in the last year or more, to help alleviate some of the charging hassles that remain a thorn in the EV industry’s side. Range anxiety doesn’t trigger the kind of palpitations that it once did in America, especially given the capability and speed of some current US charging systems. However, the state of play in the US is under the microscope again due to rapid advancements in China. Geely has been able to demonstrate a technology in a production EV that makes “fast” US charging rates look suddenly rather ordinary. Geely Shows That A Car…

OpenAI’s newest flagship AI model is starting to reach ChatGPT Plus subscribers, giving people on the $20 plan access to GPT-6 Astra just days after its debut. Plus users can access Astra through ChatGPT Work and Codex as the rollout reaches more accounts. OpenAI says availability is gradual, so the model may not appear for everyone immediately. Astra is not currently included in regular Chat for Plus users. Usage is covered by the existing Plus allowance rather than requiring another subscription. Plus users get limited Astra access, while additional usage can be purchased with credits once the included allowance runs…