Convertibles bring with them a touch of luxury. Many people associate a roofless vehicle with a feeling of freedom, summer days and vacation. Most convertibles are designed as two-seaters and are mainly taken on a breezy spin in the warmer months. As a second or third car, they stand for economic growth and personal success more than any other model. […]
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After the weak years during the coronavirus pandemic, the German car market recovered somewhat last year. This was mainly due to commercial sales – private new registrations, on the other hand, continued to fall. There were also differences between the various drive concepts. While sales of electric cars increased, plug-in hybrids (PHEV), known as a bridging technology, fell out of […]
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Free travel for free citizens – this slogan has been used for decades to successfully argue against a speed limit on Germany’s autobahns. To this day, Germany is the only country in Europe with no general speed limit but only a recommended guideline speed. On 70 percent of Germany’s autobahns, drivers are allowed to drive at any speed. With so […]
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Imagine that the Google Play Store gets in touch with you on your cell phone. The message: Please go to the nearest mobile store, an update for the Chrome app is available now and can be installed there. Sounds absurd, doesn’t it? But that’s exactly what numerous car manufacturers are still asking their customers to do. Today’s vehicles are basically […]
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The Covid-19 pandemic still has car manufacturers suffering. Above all, the so-called chip crisis, the sluggish production of semiconductors, is giving the industry a hard time. Electromobility, which only really took off two years ago, is also feeling the effects. At the end of 2020, JATO Dynamics analysed the market for vehicles with battery electric drive (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid […]
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With prices of two euros and more for a liter of fuel, more and more people in Germany are wondering: should my next new car perhaps be an electric car? The range of e-vehicles in all price segments is growing continuously, and new models are added almost weekly. But despite all the enthusiasm for the electric driving experience, Germany’s drivers […]
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The race to electrification continues to power ahead. While Tesla is perhaps the hottest topic of the moment, interestingly there appears to be very little news about the actions that Chinese brands are taking in the space. Despite the fact that Chinese ICE vehicles may not currently be game changers within the industry, the country certainly plays a key role […]
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New government, new plans and goals. The New Year’s resolution for the automotive market: No fewer than 15 million electric cars should be driving on German roads by 2030. But such a goal was already ambitious in 2010, when the government at the time wanted one million e-cars on the roads by 2020. The outcome is well known. With its […]
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Until the beginning of the 1990s, the world of cars was quite a manageable affair, seeing that back then, there were something like 100 different vehicle variants. But then things took off. Less than 25 years later, more than 3,000 vehicle types were on offer in Germany – spread across various models, styles and engine types. But many of them […]
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When it comes to buying a new car, most German car buyers would probably say it’s too expensive and opt for a used car. No surprise, since for years about two thirds of all cars traded in Germany have been used cars. The reason is simple: prices for new cars have been rising distinctly for decades. The first VW Golf’s […]
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