The 2021 Mazda 3 is unique for a hatchback design. While controversial, it does look more premium than it actually is. To match this show with some go, Mazda has decided to drop the long-awaited turbocharged engine inside the engine bay of the 2021 Mazda 3 hatchback and sedan.
Nissan has just introduced the production version of the all-new Nissan Ariya, an electric crossover SUV that we last saw as a concept on our trip to the Tokyo Motor Show late last year.
While the new 2021 Ford Bronco is squarely aimed at taking on the big gun, the Jeep Wrangler, Ford launched another member to the family with a different aim. The 2021 Bronco Sport is a smaller crossover wearing the Bronco badge, locking horns with the smaller Jeeps like the Compass Trailhawk and a large list of other competitors.
Since it was first teased back in 2004, enthusiasts across the world had been waiting for Ford to bring back the Bronco, long dead after starring in the infamous O.J. Simpson police chase a decade prior to that. And it’s finally happened. The resurrected Ford Bronco is back as a 2021 model year, planned out as a serious threat to the Jeep Wrangler, ending its solo act in the off-road segment ever since the Toyota FJ Cruiser was nixed globally. And it is going to be an entire line-up of offroad vehicles to take on Jeep as a whole.
The third-generation Kia Optima was a design revelation for the boring sedan segment when it was launched in 2011. The fourth-gen followed in 2016, bringing some edgy styling to the table and the once ugly duckling turned into a darn good-looking swan. For its fifth gen, Kia has dropped the Optima name altogether and has launched it as the 2021 Kia K5, which has been its Korean-market name for the past decade.
With economies slowly opening up, the automotive industry is also seeing a slight wave of revival. But this has also opened up a floodgate of recalls.
Between the headache of our FCA door trim falling off every few months and our S2000 going missing briefly, we forgot to write an update on the new tyres we got for our Chrysler 300 SRT. It made a massive difference.
The VW Arteon started life as “a stylish Passat,” even badged as the Passat CC initially, then dropping the Passat to become the VW CC before finally getting its own name. For the new year, 2021 VW Arteon gets minor changes, a new body style as well as oodles of performance, in the form of 2021 VW Arteon R. The irony is that the Arteon has been dropped from the Middle East line-up already due to slow sales and overpricing, but let’s not dwell on that.
Dodge’s SRT division is an endless pit of absolute lunacy. The brand keeps the American formula of muscle cars alive in Dodge’s lineup, because stuffing Hellcat engines into random cars is easier than making door trim that doesn’t fall off every summer. Dodge has now decided to churn out three more cars — 2021 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock, and Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye — all ready to hand over about 800 horsepower to people with no proper training.
There’s no denying the Bentley Bentayga has polarising looks, yet it’s been a solid sales success for the Crewe-based premium brand. The leather-lined behemoth recorded an 18 percent year-on-on-year increase in sales in 2019 and accounted for 45 per cent of the company’s production volume last year.