At pretty much any time of day, if you stand at Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris (where the Arc de Triomphe is), you'll see a car accident. Yes, it looks a bit like a roundabout, but with 12 exits, no road markings and the converging traffic of one of Europe's busiest cities, it's always a cacophonic calamity of screeching tyres and breaking glass, the air blue with swearing and fumes. It's really quite a mess, though somehow, despite the argy-bargy, it seems to work.

But Paris is a long way to go if you want to…

Should you buy a commercial vehicle for private use? The temptation certainly is there. Instead of spending your hard-earned on a baubles-and-tinsel large SUV, which isn't designed to tackle terrain more taxing than a shopping centre car park, why not save a few quid and buy a pick-up truck instead?

After all, it's something our American cousins have been at for decades, and that's why Ford is basically a company that makes the F-150 pick-up truck, with a few ancillary operations tacked onto the side (y'know - small fry like the Focus and

You know that sensation you get, watching another car, whereby you can read its body language? Whether as a pedestrian yourself, or from behind your own wheel, you just get a feeling of how, when and in what direction another car is going to move, and that's a feeling often reinforced by making eye contact with the driver.

That eye contact can be crucial, especially to pedestrians. Drivers are ever unpredictable from a walker's point of view, but eye contact means that at the very least, you both know where the other is and have acknowledged the other's presence. That…

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…