In China, the confusing theater of the world's wildest electric vehicle market, logic seems to have gone on holiday. To survive the bruising price war started by the local automakers, Toyota has set its rulebook on fire, rolled up its sleeves, and delivered the refreshed 2027 bZ5 with a price tag that feels like a misprint.

We were lucky enough to secure one of the first customer allocations for a BMW iX3 50 xDrive, and over the coming months we will be sharing what it’s actually like to live with.

Every hiker (even a weekend warrior like yours truly) knows the sickening feeling of a false summit. You sweat for hours, legs aching, lungs burning, 100% convinced that the final peak is just over the next ridge - only to climb over it and discover a near-vertical rock face stretching into what feels like the clouds themselves.

Range Rover announced the new GT last month as the fifth member of the family. The brand revealed at the time that prototypes were completing final global testing wrapped in a camo design.

Colin Chapman's sacred motorsport gospel - "Simplify, then add lightness" - has taken a proper beating in the electric era. Every time I fling a modern, high-voltage missile into a tight hairpin, I can feel the tortured rubber screaming under the mass of it all. We have built remarkable machines with earth-shattering torque, but the dirty secret beneath every carbon-trimmed EV is that we are dragging a massive, half-ton (if we're lucky) slab of chemical dead weight around.