Yes, Polestar’s Abbey Road Studios is referencing the same legendary London recording house where the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and a small galaxy of musical luminaries once recorded timeless anthems. Polestar’s latest over-the-air (OTA) update adds a full-blown sonic experience meticulously shaped by Abbey Road’s own audio engineers, and it’s exclusive to Polestar 3s fitted with the Bowers & Wilkins sound system. Dubbed the Abbey Road Studios Mode, this update introduces four distinctive ...
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Hyundai Motor Group Visionaries Honoured at Automotive News Centennial Awards
At the recent Automotive News Centennial Awards in Turin, Hyundai Motor Group brought home numerous accolades. Let’s start with Luc Donckerwolke, President, Chief Design Officer, and Chief Creative Officer. Under his stewardship, Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis have become rolling expressions of futuristic ambition. Donckerwolke’s résumé has everything from Skoda and Audi to Lamborghini, SEAT, and Bentley, before landing at Hyundai in 2016. It wasn’t long before his creative fingerprints were all over ...
Read MoreCommissioned through the Rolls-Royce Private Office in Dubai, the Spectre Rose draws its inspiration from the English Princess Rose. The mother’s brief to the Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective was simple: to immortalise her daughter’s favourite flower and colour, while weaving in elements of family and heritage. And what bloomed was a vehicle that feels like a moving heirloom. Embroidered across all four headrests and cascading down the rear seat waterfall, the rose motif ...
Read MoreXiaomi has teamed up with Polyphony Digital to bring the SU7 Ultra to Gran Turismo 7. Launched just last year as part of Xiaomi’s ambitious “Human × Car × Home” smart ecosystem, the SU7 Ultra is a lap record breaking machine. Beneath its bonnet lies Xiaomi’s self-developed HyperEngine V8s tri-motor setup, good for 1526hp and a ferocious 0–100 km/h sprint in just 1.98 seconds. Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi himself took the ...
Read MoreYou wouldn’t normally associate Lamborghini V12s, carbon fibre, and thundering exhaust notes with words like “sustainable” or “eco-conscious”. But at Sant’Agata Bolognese, the home of Lamborghini, it’s been quietly humming along for a decade. Yes, Lamborghini is celebrating ten years of on-balance carbon neutrality at its historic production site. The birthplace of fire-breathing machines like the Aventador and Revuelto has been steadily reducing, offsetting, and recalibrating emissions, making it one of the ...
Read MoreIt’s not every day that you come across a car that can do 310km/h, carry a boot full of champagne, and still look like it just stepped off a Savile Row catwalk. But Bentley’s never been a brand for the ordinary, and the new Bentayga Speed is anything but. This is now the most powerful, most dynamic, and arguably the most thrilling version of the Bentayga the world has seen. You ...
Read MoreThe iconic 4x4, now flying under the JLR Defender sub-brand, has returned for 2025 with an update that’s “I’m still the boss.” Crucially, the Defender hasn’t softened up. Sure, it’s added some modern conveniences and visual tweaks, but this is still a vehicle that looks like it could survive a meteor shower and then tow the meteor back to civilisation. The new model arrives with a reworked front and rear design, complete ...
Read MoreAntonio Filosa is the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of Stellantis. Effective 23 June, Filosa takes the wheel of one of the world’s largest carmakers, with full CEO powers already granted by the Board. And if that sounds like a tall order, Filosa has been doing hot laps around this track for more than 25 years. As Chief Operating Officer of South America, Filosa took the FIAT brand and launched it into ...
Read MoreKTM AG, the iconic Austrian motorcycle brand, has just secured a strategic lifeline worth €600 million. After what insiders describe as months of tireless planning and meticulous negotiation, KTM has emerged not just with a fresh boost of capital, but with renewed vigour. “Today we have been given the opportunity to continue the history of KTM,” said CEO Gottfried Neumeister. “Together with our long-standing partner Bajaj, we were able to work out ...
Read MoreBalenciaga and Automobili Lamborghini have decided to rewrite the rules of fashion. This partnership is a fusion of performance and presence, of silhouette and speed. The main part of this collaboration is the new capsule collection, a limited-edition range that channels Lamborghini’s unapologetically bold lines into Balenciaga’s avant-garde streetwear aesthetic. Oversized proportions, exaggerated shoulders, metallic sheens, and deep, brooding blacks that could very well match the paint of a Huracán Sterrato at ...
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