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First drive review: 2021 BMW 330e plug-in hybrid hits the right numbers but shuns its sport-sedan heritage

Green Car Reports

“OK Boomer,” jeered BMW last November, in a social-media ad for its first fully electric SUV, the iX. The brand once owned the sport-sedan. It was a reference to an already outdated meme that feels so last-decade now.

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2024 Hyundai Creta facelift gets 70 safety features, including 19 ADAS features

Baua Electric

(HT Auto/Sabyasacha Dasgupta) Hyundai has launched the much-awaited facelifted iteration of the Creta SUV in India. Besides that, the mid-size SUV also received a host of safety features. It sports as many as 19 features. Also Read : 2024 Hyundai Creta drive review: Owner’s perspective, eight years in the making.

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Tesla Model Y Performance versus Kia EV6 GT: Which is Australia’s best go-fast EV?

EV Central

You’ll find 21-inch alloys, matrix LED headlights, faux-leather and suede sport seats that are heated up front, and a very good dual 12.3-inch Its sports seats means it misses out on electric adjustment up front. These are performance cars, after all, so we’ll leave the boring bumper-to-bumper stuff for another review.

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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

EV Central

Delightfully and quirkily styled, good value and with excellent passenger space, it stood out like a shining, extrovert beacon next to the sea of homogenised, vanilla small SUVs. With that horror show of a Blue Oval mini SUV trouncing the Soul’s 485 sales that year, no wonder Kia Australia pulled it after a decade of trying.

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Cupra Born review: High five for Spanish compact hatch

EV Central

And yep, it’s not an SUV, there’s no black cladding or raised ride heights here. While Cupra wants us to think of the Born as a hot hatch in line with its sporting image, it doesn’t quite have that bravura. The post Cupra Born review: High five for Spanish compact hatch appeared first on EV Central. There is no head-up display.