super car? Crazy electric car? No, the number one highlight of the year was a compact SUV, tens of thousands of which have long walked our streets. How boring! This is true. But on the other hand, it’s not just our editorial staff that we keep forgetting about how many tenants on the block don’t yet drive electric cars: because they have to park far from an outlet on the street or the landlords refuse to do so. Use the wall box to charge.
For them, new, affordable and family-friendly hybrid cars like Renault’s Austral at acceptable prices are still important. Despite 200 hp, its consumption in the test lap was just over five liters per 100 kilometers – not bad. It’s great that so many new electric models still leave development budgets for these types of cars.
rolling cinema
You won’t be bored in the second part: BMW’s new electric i7 dazzles with so many digital elements that you almost forget that you are sitting in a car. This test drive could only be a show in the back seat, thanks to the XXL display that can be folded out of the headlining. To have a full view of the Hollywood blockbuster movie being shown, you’ll need to sink deep into the reclining seats.
children’s stuff? Definitely that too, if you show the «Ice Age». But all in all high-tech BMW’s Nobel cruiser is above all a preview of what driving could be in the future: relaxed but still emotional despite all the assists. I just need to look a little forward.