00:00hi today we'll dwell upon mazda's probably biggest leap backwards i'll tell you who's on the short
00:06list to win the world car awards and then we'll see who grabbed some serious coin to keep making
00:12autonomous cars regardless of whether we want them or not this is drive through february 2026
00:19and a bit of march as well
00:34i'll start with the upcoming grand finale of this year's world car awards recently wca announced
00:40the world car person of the year still head of bmw oliver tzipse still because at the end of 2025
00:47bmw announced he will be stepping down tzipse was awarded among others for his technology openness
00:53which made bmw into a brand that other car makers look up to zipse beat the gm staff product manager
01:01david craig and head of slate design tisha johnson meanwhile the world car of the year shortlist
01:08features bmw ix3 hyundai palisade and nissan leaf it's an interesting choice between a future forward
01:17bmw neuer classe a somewhat old-school hyundai and nissan's affordable ev
01:23bmw ix3 nissan leaf along with mercedes-benz cla also compete for the world electric car title
01:30you'll find reviews of these three cars on my channel and i encourage you to watch them
01:34i think the leaf is more of a car of the year material whereas the ix3 is the better ev
01:41here
01:41world luxury shortlist features cadillac vistique lucid gravity and volvo es90 from european perspective
01:48not the most exciting lineup world performance car will go either to bmw m2 cs or corvette e-ray or
01:55hyundai ioniq 6n i'm rooting for bmw as it's probably one of the last real cars interestingly
02:03none of the world urban car contenders is even available in europe which was once the leader in
02:08this segment raise your hand if you know what's a baujun yip plus a firefly or at least a hyundai
02:17venue the latter i've seen somewhere but i couldn't care less competing for the world car design of the
02:25year are kia ev5 mazda 6e and volvo es90 jury votes are in including those by yours truly and the
02:33winners will be announced on first of april no it's not a joke that's the first press day of the
02:38new
02:38york auto show now literally in the first days of march i was in spain to drive the new mazda
02:45cx5
02:46oh and i have thoughts mazda likes to tell everyone who listen how it's a relatively small company that has
02:53to make very thoughtful decisions about how it spends its limited funds and then we get something
02:59like the mx30 which could have been an electric cx30 and it would sell like hotcakes the new cx5 is
03:07also a bit of a head-scratcher it's bigger but why there was a place in the lineup between the
03:14cx30 and
03:15the cx60 and to make things easier to understand they could have just named it the cx50 or better still
03:22turn the cx30 and the cx60 into cx3 and cx6 since the old cx3b crossover is no longer in production
03:30instead we have an suv which is almost as big as the cx60 but for europe they made the already
03:36luckluster two and a half liter engine even less powerful at just 141 horsepower and a double digit
03:42zero to 100 kilometers per hour time mazda also decided to get rid of most of the physical switch
03:47gear and slapped on a digital display the interface is better than the one in the changan cooperation
03:54which is called the mazda 6c but if you want to turn up the ac you'll still have to click
03:59on the
03:59screen and the funny thing is that as mazda finally caught up with the rest of the automotive world
04:04and got rid of most of physical buttons the rest of the automotive world realized buttons and knobs
04:09are actually what customers want i bet in three to four years mazda will have buttons again meanwhile the
04:15chinese could have done it over the weekend speaking of the chinese byd has announced
04:22new blade battery 2.0 and flush charging which means charging it up to 1500 kilowatts which allows
04:31for 10 to 97 recharge time of nine minutes and before you say but that's in optimum conditions
04:36sure but that's in optimum conditions at minus 30 degrees celsius which is like minus 22 fahrenheit
04:42byd claims 20 to 97 state of charge in 12 minutes and that's impressive of course initially fast
04:50enough chargers will be available only in china but byd wants to build flash chargers also in other
04:57parts of the world now while the chinese are promising us cars that will charge faster than it
05:03takes for middle-aged men to pee reno and dacia say they will continue efforts to electrify their model
05:10lineup by 2030 dacia also announced a new multi-energy i kid you not that's their marketing mumbo jumbo
05:18csuv crossover called the striker and i hear it's going to be a bit of a hit in the middle
05:24east
05:25sorry too early anyway i was in the middle east just before everyone started playing shoot this drone
05:33down there are several places in the world where i like to return and i used to live in the
05:38middle east
05:38for about 10 years seven years of which i spent in the united arab emirates that's abu dubai where they
05:45saved the bear's chicken tramuta anyway i have friends there and i like to go back and visit the
05:53places that i used to frequent as a kid as well as to explore new ones last year i recorded
05:58a review
05:58of the toyota land cruiser prado there this year courtesy of jlr i drove the land rover defender 130
06:04it was supposed to be the octa but this disappeared from the press fleet so i had the car for
06:10a week
06:11and i already reviewed it and you can watch it on my channel but being a thorough journalist as i
06:19am
06:19i took it into the mountains and into the desert and i didn't get stuck and i can assure you
06:25that if you
06:25have 150 grand lying around or a couple of thousand euro for a monthly lease payment and you like
06:33off-roaders the defender doesn't disappoint even more so if you need a family card the defender 130
06:38comes as a seven or even an eight seater and these are proper eight seats for adults and soon on
06:44this
06:44channel a land rover defender alternative for those who don't have 150 000 euro or more
06:50the jetter t2 is there some substance behind a defender inspired design or is it just a chinese
06:57knockoff of a legend as soon as i finish recording this i'm going to edit the jetter review so stay
07:03tuned channel members get early access with no ads and last but not least you know who has good
07:09channel members wavy they received 1.5 billion dollars funding to make a car tell a lamppost from
07:17policemen investors in this apparently hot british startup include mercedes-benz celantis nissan and uber
07:22the project partners qualcomm and they want to speed things up with an ai offensive and if all goes
07:28well we'll be able to drive with not just hands off like in a bmw ix but also with eyes
07:35off just like
07:37about any car that you're stuck next to in the morning traffic because everyone has to click those
07:41bloody screens looking to turn up the heating change the radio station or turn off some stupid beeper
07:48about 15 years ago i spoke to a car makers autonomous vehicle expert and he told me
07:54we're going to see autonomous cars in 10 years and that would have been five years ago as long as
07:59human
07:59drivers and cars driven by computers occupy the same roads i wouldn't hold my breath
08:07and do you want cars to be autonomous under what circumstances let me know in the comment section below
08:13that's it for today next week it's the jetter t2 and you can expect another drive-through episode
08:21in early april see you then if you like my sarcastic down-to-earth and possibly mildly amusing car
08:29reviews join me every friday at 3 p.m central european time and don't forget to subscribe and like this
08:36video as it helps me with the youtube algorithm thanks for watching and i will see you in the next
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