Volkswagen is at a turning point. After several years of searching for an identity in the electric age, criticism of the software and ergonomic slippages in the interior, it seems that the German giant is returning to what it has always done best: making cars for people. In sunny Portugal, the Volkswagen ID. Cross 2026 concept was revealed to selected eyes – a car that promises to correct the mistakes of the past.
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Jan Macarol is the responsible editor of the printed and online editions of City Magazine Slovenia. Together with his two assistants, he strives to offer readers the most unique and fresh information about urban culture, technological innovations, fashion and everything an urban nomad needs to survive in a fast-paced world.
Seiko is wrapping up the 60th anniversary celebration of its first diver's watch with the Seiko Prospex SPB545. It's a limited edition that combines the iconic 1965 case design with a stunning "Tranquil Teal" dial and - perhaps more importantly - a new micro-adjustment buckle. Is this the best Seiko of the year?
Let's be honest. Electric motorcycles have so far fallen into two categories. The first is those that look like kitchen appliances on steroids and have the charisma of a toaster. The second is those that cost as much as a studio apartment in Ljubljana, but you can't even get to the sea on them without reading War and Peace while waiting at a charging station. But it seems that the Barras brothers from Hong Kong have finally found the holy grail with their new project BBM Hiro Streetfighter. Or at least a very good approximation.
The Lexus LFA was like a starburst—bright, beautiful, and damn short. If you were living under a rock in 2010, you missed the car that sounded like angels playing trombones while falling down stairs. Today, my dears, the LFA is back. But before you pop the champagne, I must warn you: Yamaha is no longer in the orchestra. The new LFA is electric. Does this mean the end of the world or the beginning of something that will melt our faces?
Everyone is shouting about a revolution. YouTubers are swooning over the charging curves. But let's be honest - when you walk up to this car in person, when you actually see it without studio lights and filters, something unexpected happens. Nothing. Your heart rate stays steady. Instead of being overwhelmed by a sense of German dominance, you are overwhelmed by a strange "déjà vu". Doesn't it all seem a bit too... Peugeot? The BMW iX3 Neue Klasse is a monster on paper, but in reality it may just be proof that "premium" is no longer what it used to be.
Let's face it, the automotive industry has become a bit... sterile lately. All the manufacturers are competing to see who can fit a bigger TV in the cabin and whose car will be quieter than a library. And then there's JAS Motorsport and Pininfarina. They decided enough of this nonsense was enough. They took a legend, put a carbon suit on it and left it with what we men really want: a manual transmission and an engine sound that makes the hairs on your arms stand on end. Meet the JAS Motorsport Tensei.
Let's be honest, for a moment, between us. We've all done it. The phone vibrates, the red light seems to last forever, and the hand slides to the "forbidden fruit" in the center console. Until now, this act has been haunted by a bad conscience and, in Tesla's case, that pesky in-cabin camera screaming at us like a hysterical math teacher. But Elon Musk, the man who would probably try to colonize the Sun if he had enough sunscreen, has just changed the rules of the game. Or at least he thinks he has. His latest tweet (sorry, "post on X") claims that you can now officially type in your Tesla. But before you open Tinder in the middle of the highway, read the fine print. Because the devil - and the cop with the ticket - is always in the details. So - Tesla FSD.
If you ride a scooter, real bikers only greet you if their visor gets fogged up or they are very polite. Especially in the USA, where scooters are seen as a means of transportation for those who have given up on life. But LiveWire, the electric branch of the legendary Harley-Davidson, has just thrown down the gauntlet in the face of this prejudice. They are preparing an electric maxi-scooter - the LiveWire Maxi-Scooter, which promises to change the rules of the game. And guess what? They might even succeed, because under the plastic they have hidden the heart of a real beast.
Until recently, drone flying was divided into two categories. The first group consisted of those boring "flying tripods" that real estate agents fly to make a house with a leaky roof look like a mansion. The second group consisted of FPV (First Person View) drones that sound like angry hornets and require the reflexes of a teenager who's had six energy drinks. If you blinked, you crashed that expensive carbon-filled "toy" into a tree. But it seems like the Antigravity A1 just walked into the room, flipped the table, and said, "Forget everything you knew." This isn't just a new drone. This is a flying camera that doesn't care which way you're looking.
If you thought the height of Toyota excitement was the moment you managed to connect your phone to Bluetooth in the Yaris, you'd be wrong. The Gazoo Racing offices have apparently locked the doors, turned off the phones, and created something that has nothing to do with the 'safe choice'. The Toyota GR GT is the spiritual successor to the LFA, except this time it doesn't scream, it roars.
I admit that as I sat down at the keyboard to write this article, I was a little scared. Not the kind of scared you get when you feel the back of a Ferrari losing traction on a bend at 180 km/h (112 mph). It's a different kind of fear. Existential. I wonder if this is the last time I, Jan Macarol, write an editorial like this "by hand" before I'm replaced by an algorithm that doesn't drink coffee, doesn't complain about taxes, and can write the entire oeuvre of Shakespeare in the blink of an eye. Professor Stuart Russell, the man who literally wrote the textbook on artificial intelligence, says we're not far from that scenario. And if he says we're in trouble, then we should listen to him.
Admit it, we were all a little scared. We were afraid that Lotus had become just another brand that produced heavy electric SUVs for people who thought that "dynamic driving" was accelerating to the next traffic light in the shopping mall. We thought that the spirit of Colin Chapman - that brilliant and obsessive engineer who shouted "simplify and add lightness" - had finally disappeared under the weight of lithium-ion batteries. But we were wrong. Oh, how wrong we were. Here we have the Lotus Theory 1. And it's not just a car. It's proof that physics still holds true and that the future doesn't have to be boring.











