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How Luxury Cars Balance Cutting-Edge Tech with Timeless Elegance

Clean Fleet Report

In this article, we delve into how luxury carmakers achieve this delicate balance, creating machines that honor their heritage while embracing the future with sophistication and style. Brands like Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Benz excel at combining modern interfaces with legacy craftsmanship.

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It’s the Goodwood Festival of EV Speed! We profile the electric stars of this Pommy power-fest led by one manic Ford F150

EV Central

Electric vehicles as race cars look set to continue on their polarising ways, but it’s obvious that in hill climb events, the future winners will only be EVs. The Renault owned performance brand is already committed to a zero-emission future and this year it has launched its most important EV yet, the Porsche Macan-rivalling A390.

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Who builds a new V8 engine in 2025 and why would they do it? GWM shocks the auto world … at least it’s a PHEV!

EV Central

Just when we thought the V8 was dying a slow death, up pops China’s GWM with a bent eight plug-in hybrid, destined for its Tank, Cannon and future luxury brands. Think BMWs M5 and XM, Bentleys Continental GT and Flying Spur, Aston Martin Valhalla, and Ferraris SF90. Announced at the Shanghai motor show this week, this 4.0-litre

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Jaguar Land Rover’s CEO Is Out

InsideEVs

With an estimated price tag of over $125,000, the production version of Jaguar’s upcoming electric grand tourer will firmly put it in Bentley territory and above. With the radical rebranding, Jaguar aims to move upmarket from its traditional place in the industry as a BMW and Mercedes-Benz rival.

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Bentley ending production of iconic W12 engine with the most powerful version ever

Green Car Congress

Bentley will cease production of its 12-cylinder gasoline engine in April 2024, by which time more than 100,000 examples of the iconic W12 will have been handcrafted in the company’s Dream Factory in Crewe, England. Development work has concluded recently on the most powerful version of the W12 ever created.

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Bentley Hybrid Concept: Preview Of 2017 SUV Plug-In Hybrid System

Green Car Reports

As Bentley has been promising for more than two years now, it will introduce a plug-in hybrid powertrain in a future product. Now we know that the first plug-in Bentley ever will come in 2017, in a dedicated version of its upcoming sport-utilty vehicle.

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Bentley installs biofuel tank at Crewe factory after successful biogasoline performance trial at Goodwood

Green Car Congress

Bentley has installed a 1,200-liter biofuel tank at its Crewe factory after successful performance trials of biogasoline— Sustain by Coryton —at Goodwood Festival of Speed. Bentley ran its six-strong fleet at Goodwood using the fuel and successfully completed all 32 hill-climbs.