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BYD Sealion 7
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2025 BYD Sealion 7 Performance Review: Plenty of surprises as Chinese attempt to bloody Tesla Model Y’s nose

May 3, 2025May 3, 2025 Stephen Corby 11639 Views BYD, Sealion 7

When you fire up a BYD Sealion 7, you are greeted by a Tesla-typical-sized screen that says: “Cool the Earth

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Deepal G318
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2025 Deepal G318 Review: Meet the Toyota Prado’s worst nightmare. This Chinese range extender can shake up the diesel-dominated Aussie 4WD market

April 21, 2025May 2, 2025 Toby Hagon 6114 Views Deepal, G318

Forget diesel engines and big fuel tanks, the new breed of frugal off-roaders rely on electricity and petrol – and

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MG ZS Hybrid+ Excite.
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2025 MG ZS Hybrid+ Excite Review: Updates to this affordable SUV mean the battery now stays charged, but it still left us feeling a little flat

April 19, 2025April 22, 2025 Bruce Newton 6835 Views Excite, mg, ZS Hybrid+

In the old days (last year), the MG ZS compact SUV was cheap and cheerful rental fleet fodder, but now

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Charging a 2025 Leapmotor C10 Design EV
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Seven day test: 2025 Leapmotor C10 Design EV. I’ll check back when you’ve finished it.

April 18, 2025April 17, 2025 Iain Curry 5300 Views C10 Design, Leapmotor C10, Leapmotor C10 Review

Leapmotor is a box fresh Chinese brand on our shores, marketed by auto giant Stellantis (Jeep, Peugeot, RAM, etc.), and

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2025 Volvo EX30 Twin Performance Ultra.
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2025 Volvo EX30 Twin Performance Ultra Review: The fastest production Volvo ever comes with standard sincerity and a dash of devil

April 13, 2025April 12, 2025 Bruce Newton 5332 Views EX30, Twin Performance Ultra, volvo

The folks at Volvo have always seem so … sincere. They are sincere in how they don’t want people to

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Haval H6GT
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2025 GWM Haval H6GT PHEV Review: New plug-in hybrid packs in the value and EV range to make life tough for BYD Sealion 6, Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV

April 12, 2025April 11, 2025 Toby Hagon 13653 Views H6GT, haval, PHEV

The new GWM Haval G6GT has the option of a plug-in hybrid system that takes EV-only motoring to another level.

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2025 Kia EV3 Air Standard Range.
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2025 Kia EV3 Air Standard Range Review: Has Kia beaten back the Chinese tide with its most affordable EV yet

April 6, 2025April 5, 2025 Bruce Newton 7082 Views

Into a sea of Chinese compact electric SUVs a little Korean contender has jumped. It’s called the Kia EV3 and

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2025 Tesla Model Y Long Range
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2025 Tesla Model Y Long Range Review: Why Elon Musk’s antics shouldn’t distract you from how good the Juniper update is

April 3, 2025April 4, 2025 Toby Hagon 16423 Views Long Range, model y, Tesla

It’s the electric car that set the template in the mid-sized SUV space. Now the 2025 Tesla Model Y Juniper

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Volvo EX90 Plus Twin Motor
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2025 Volvo EX90 Review: Sizeable seven-seat electric SUV delivers on space in spades

March 30, 2025March 30, 2025 Andrew Chesterton 3440 Views review, volvo ex90

The EX90 might look a bit like some of Volvo’s petrol-powered product, but beneath the skin it’s an EV-from-birth, capitalising

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Jaecoo J7 SHS
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2025 Jaecoo J7 SHS Review: New plug-in BYD Sealion 6 rival is a budget-priced PHEV choice

March 29, 2025April 29, 2025 Toby Hagon 8384 Views J7, Jaecoo, Jaecoo J7

Jaecoo is yet another new brand to add to the mix of mostly Chinese newcomers trying to carve itself a

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Hydrogen electric vehicles, often called hydrogen fuel cells vehicles (FCEV), drive the same as regular EVs. They can have one

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