Yes, BMW’s cars are typically more expensive than Kia’s offerings, but the best-selling Kia Sportage isn’t exactly cheap, starting at over £30,000. Base models feel pretty smart inside, while top-spec examples are even classed as ‘luxury’ cars by the government when it comes to calculating road tax. Then there’s Skoda, which was once viewed as… Continue reading Motability’s definition of a ‘premium’ car is outdated, and here’s why
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Clean Technica: What Falling Sales? BEVs Jump 34% YoY in October in Europe!004272
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. BEVs reach 21% market share! EVs are picking up in Europe, with some 346,000 plugin vehicles being registered in Europe in October, 229,000 of them being BEVs. Overall, plugin vehicles were up 36% YoY. Expect December 2025 to establish a new record score, maybe even… Continue reading Clean Technica: What Falling Sales? BEVs Jump 34% YoY in October in Europe!004272
IG Metall survey: Disabled employees are under increasing pressure
Industrial location GermanyWe are fighting for our industry – strike at Jungheinrich VW, Ford, ThyssenKrupp, ZF, Bosch: Our industry is downsizing, relocating, closing – often only for one or two percent more profit, without a plan or clear perspectives. Employees are fighting for their future together with IG Metall. The employees at Jungheinrich in Lüneburg… Continue reading IG Metall survey: Disabled employees are under increasing pressure
@VW Group: The realisation of a dream: the interior of the Panamera Turbo ‘Sonderwunsch’010967
25/11/2025 With the Panamera Turbo ‘Sonderwunsch’, Porsche demonstrated how an individual customer vision for a sports car exterior could become reality. Now, as part of the Icons of Porsche festival in Dubai, the sports car manufacturer is showing an equally special interior, thereby completing an individual customer dream. Fade effects and contrasting colours that correspond… Continue reading @VW Group: The realisation of a dream: the interior of the Panamera Turbo ‘Sonderwunsch’010967
@VW Group: Cayenne drives 34,000 kilometres to Icons of Porsche festival010966
24/11/2025 Dubai-based adventurer Mateo Moussaoui took the long way to the Icons of Porsche festival – driving his 2009 V6 Cayenne more than 34,000 km across 28 countries. Proving the durability of Porsche’s first-generation E1 Cayenne, Moussaoui set off with a simple plan: enter Kuwait into his GPS, pack a bag, and hit the road.… Continue reading @VW Group: Cayenne drives 34,000 kilometres to Icons of Porsche festival010966
@VW Group: Battery Manufacturing 2030+: From Hype to Hard Truths010965
1. All information offered on Porsche Newsroom, including but not limited to, texts, images, audio and video documents, are subject to copyright or other legislation for the protection of intellectual property. They are intended exclusively for use by journalists as a source for their own media reporting and are not intended for commercial use, in… Continue reading @VW Group: Battery Manufacturing 2030+: From Hype to Hard Truths010965
@VW Group: Heritage meets high-tech: two generations of Cayenne dazzle in Dubai010964
24/11/2025 More than 30,000 sports car enthusiasts from all over the world flocked to the fifth Icons of Porsche festival in the Dubai Design District, marking a new record number of attendees. One highlight was the meeting of two different generations of Cayenne: a reinterpreted classic and the new Cayenne Electric impressively demonstrated how broad… Continue reading @VW Group: Heritage meets high-tech: two generations of Cayenne dazzle in Dubai010964
@VW Group: Kasing Lung presents limited art collectible at “Icons of Porsche 2025″010963
1. All information offered on Porsche Newsroom, including but not limited to, texts, images, audio and video documents, are subject to copyright or other legislation for the protection of intellectual property. They are intended exclusively for use by journalists as a source for their own media reporting and are not intended for commercial use, in… Continue reading @VW Group: Kasing Lung presents limited art collectible at “Icons of Porsche 2025″010963
@VW Group: Visit Qatar welcomed by the future Audi F1 Team as a new principal partner010963
The future Audi F1 Team has announced that Visit Qatar will become a principal partner upon the team’s entry into the FIA Formula 1 World Championship in 2026. The collaboration is built around a shared ambition: bringing Qatar to the world and the heart of the global F1 community. Through this partnership, Visit Qatar will… Continue reading @VW Group: Visit Qatar welcomed by the future Audi F1 Team as a new principal partner010963
One step beyond: how Kia plans to shake up the van market
In this transition era for the automotive industry, barely a week passes without a manufacturer wheeling out a bold new electric machine with a flashy presentation that claims it brings tomorrow’s technology to today’s roads and will transform the fortunes of the firm that made it. But those presentations don’t normally include extended sections on… Continue reading One step beyond: how Kia plans to shake up the van market