2026’s Formula 1 championship now looks far from a foregone thing. After an unanticipated five-week break in the season, Formula One resumed action this past weekend in Miami. Held at a temporary circuit around Hard Rock Stadium, the event is emblematic of the Liberty era of F1: a turbocharged…
Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more. Toyota provided flights from Albany, New York, to Tokyo and accommodation so Ars could visit Woven City. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2020, Toyota…
We’ll soon get to see the brand’s first EV; first, a more honed V12 four-seater. Did you know that SUVs now account for 6 in 10 new vehicles sold in Europe? That’s even higher than in the US or China, where market share for lifted hatchbacks currently runs at…
In addition to being full of screens, China now wants its cars to be packed with AI. The Beijing Auto Show is currently taking place in China, offering those of us behind the Trump tariff curtain a peek at what’s increasingly being dubbed the world’s most advanced car market.…
AI finds value in motorsport, multiplying limited computational fluid dynamics resources. Since the introduction of wings to racing cars halfway through the 1960s, airflow has been everything in racing. Until that point, the focus was on making a car as slippery as possible; less drag meant more top speed…
The hands-free, eyes-on driver assist only works on geofenced highways. When Super Cruise debuted in the Cadillac CT6 in 2017, it showed there was a responsible way to give drivers a hands-free assistance system. Unlike Tesla, General Motors geofenced the system to only work on restricted-access highways that had…
The bidirectional design has some clear advantages for a working taxi. These days, the hype is all about AI and robots, but almost a decade ago, the tech du jour was self-driving. You couldn’t swing a lanyard at CES for the latter half of the last decade without hitting…
Porsche’s stake in Bugatti and Rimac Group have been sold to private equity. A new chapter in the Bugatti story begins today. Twenty-eight years after bringing the storied luxury brand back from the dead, Volkswagen Group no longer counts Bugatti among its stable of brands. Porsche, which became the…
The 2027 7 Series is available as an EV, with an inline-six, or an inline-six PHEV. In 1968, having achieved a modicum of stability through the introduction of its seminal Neue Klasse (or “new class”) models, BMW scaled up its styling and used the company’s M10 four-cylinder engine as…
Car sales are up, battery sales and emissions credits are down. Tesla published its quarterly financials ahead of an investor call this afternoon. The maker of electric vehicles has become an increasingly polarized brand but a valuable one: $1.21 trillion at the time of writing. And we knew from…
