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 MoreWith the arrival of its refreshed summer menu, Na Oh is once again inviting diners to savour the season the Korean way. The new summer menu honours the rhythms of the seasons and Korea’s deeply rooted culinary heritage. Headlining this update are two new appetisers, a main course, and dessert, all carefully orchestrated to harmonise with the warmer months. Let’s start with the Mugunji and Pork Belly Jeon. If you’ve ever wondered ...
Read MoreHMGICS has just launched the Smart Food Lab, a sensory workshop designed specifically for the tiniest of tastebuds and the widest of imaginations. Most kids today are more familiar with the iPad menu than the idea of where their meals come from. Ask a six-year-old where lettuce grows, and you're likely to hear, “Cold Storage?” But Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore (HMGICS) wants to change that, with the kind of ...
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 MoreFirst unveiled in 2021, the BMW iX has now returned in 2025 looking sharper, driving further, and cradling its passengers in even more digitised comfort. The new BMW iX xDrive45 packs a brawnier 300 kW (408 hp) and whips from 0–100km/h in just 5.1 seconds. That’s one second quicker than its predecessor. Top speed is a neatly governed 200km/h. More impressively, BMW has found a way to stretch the range up to ...
Read MoreMalaysia has recently implemented new changes to the VEP system, which are set to take effect from 1 July 2025. If you’ve ever zipped across the Causeway for supper, cheap petrol or a quick Malacca weekend, you might want to keep reading, especially if you’ve been procrastinating about that Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP). After years of delays and postponements, Malaysia’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke has finally drawn the line in the tarmac. ...
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 ...
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