These days, you can't move without reference to BEVs, HEVs, PHEVs and FCEVS. And the common theme to all these seemingly incomprehensible acronyms is the EV bit - electric vehicles.

It seems like the whole world is racing to electrification of personal transportation. We've got electric buses. Electric taxis. Electric vans. Even a few electric lorries. But nowhere is the adoption of EVs moving quicker than in the world of cars. It looks like it's the new panacea to global pollution issues and certain cities - Paris, Hamburg and Copenhagen, being but a few - are already looking into bans…

It used to be the rule that, in the world of Mercedes-Benz, it was always the S-Class that debuted the company's most jaw-dropping new tech. But, in the case of the German firm's latest innovation, Mercedes has looked to the other end of the product scale and blessed the all-new, fourth-generation A-Class with something quite amazing: it's called the Mercedes-Benz User Experience, or MBUX for short, and it's the latest thing for in-car human-machine interfaces (HMI).

In time, MBUX will filter its way into the rest of the Mercedes fleet,…

In Los Angeles, despite the abundance of shared electric scooters appearing abandoned and strewn across footpaths sidewalks, and a motor show where mobility solutions were being posited, it was clear that the car is still king. Well, more accurately it is the SUV that is the potentate in La La Land.

Public debuts of flagship SUVs weren't scarce at this year's running of the LA Auto Show. The BMW X7 may have limited appeal on our shores, but Stateside the crowds couldn't get enough of it, lapping up its luxurious details - though…

A couple of unexpected things happened in the past few days, both of them involving Alfa Romeo. First up, I had a test car cancelled out from under me (not that unusual, but not that common either) and had to scramble around to find something to drive, and write about. Alfa Romeo Ireland took pity on me, and managed to find a Giulia saloon that was available. Great, I thought. It'll be the storming, 510hp, V6 turbo, Quadrifoglio version. Or at least the 280hp turbo Veloce model.

If we were to put our film critic hats on for a moment, John Frankenheimer's 1997 classic, Ronin, may not stand up to much hard scrutiny. The plot centres around a bunch of ex-special forces operatives hired by some unspecified dissident Northern Irish republicans to capture a case from a bunch of other, non-specific, shady goons. What's in the case? We don't know. The case is a 'MacGuffin', a term for an object whose sole function is to move a plot along and give the characters something to quest after - think the Holy Grail or the Maltese Falcon. It's…

The classic car world has been replete, of late, with recreations and 'continuations' of classic original cars. Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin have been the most conspicuous players of this game. It started 15 years ago when Aston decided that it would build some new-for-old DB4 GT Zagato coupes, because it found some allocated chassis numbers that had never been used. Aston has been at it again recently, with 'Continuation' DB4 GT coupes, while Jaguar and Land Rover have been turning out 'Reborn' E-Type lightweights, Range Rovers and Series 1 80-inch models.

Now comes what may be the ultimate,…