Matt Bird

1 week ago | pistonheads.com | Matt Bird

It isn’t often that we’re covering both news story and review in one feature, but such is the case this time around with the new Kia EV6 GT. You haven’t heard much about it because there’s been nothing to share, Kia keeping its new performance flagship under wraps until now. Which isn’t to say that nothing has changed.

1 week ago | pistonheads.com | Matt Bird

Chevrolet can always be relied on to raise the bar when it comes to sheer performance. Only now it’s lifted the bar to a level Armand Duplantis would struggle to clear: this is the ZR1X, a new hybrid V8 supercar with more power than a Ferrari F80. It’s also a Corvette. 1,250hp is the kind of power figure associated with dedicated drag machines, not series production sports cars.

1 week ago | pistonheads.com | Matt Bird

Guess how long Ford made its people-carrying Galaxy? I'll tell you: across three generations and a facelift for each of them, Ford was churning out the MPV for almost 30 years. Well, 27 years and 10 months to be precise, from June 1995 to April 2023. Yes, the last Galaxy was made just a couple of years ago; if someone had said it was gone before the 2020s, we’d have believed you.

1 week ago | pistonheads.com | Matt Bird

We’ve had more than 20 years now of BMW M cars with a carbon roof; bravo if you remembered the M3 CSL as the first. Since then, it’s featured on just about every model, including the standard M3, M4, M6, and M8. In more recent times, BMW has flirted with more significant carbon construction - see the i3 and i8 - as well as the Carbon Cage in an iX and Carbon Core in the 7 Series. And that’s before you get to the iffy add-ons available in the BMW M Performance catalogue. Carbon is a big deal for BMW.

1 week ago | pistonheads.com | Matt Bird

The Mercedes 190E and the Nürburgring have plenty of history; back when the GP circuit opened in 1984, a grid of identical 2.3-16s were raced by 20 legendary drivers. The Nürburgring Race of Champions went down in motor racing lore as the event that really marked the arrival of Ayrton Senna; a relative newcomer 41 years ago, he beat nine F1 World Champions to finish first.