Top and flop: the good and bad car news of week 30

+ Top - The electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 actually achieves its specified range

430 kilometers is the official range of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 with 73 kWh battery pack and 20-inch wheels. What is left of that if you drive at 100 or 130 km/h on the Dutch highway? More than you think ...

+ Top - New Renault 5 Turbo 3 makes shoulder pads cool again

The Renault 5 is coming back, we wrote earlier. But by that we were referring to Renault's own electric retro hatchback, not this great Legende Automobiles Turbo 3.

+ Top - Tesla sees net profit tenfold (!) in the second quarter of 2021

Tesla posted a net profit of $1.1 billion in the second quarter of 2021. That is more than ten times as much as in the same period last year and more than double compared to January, February and March 2021.

+ Top - McLaren 765LT Spider pulls a long tail to the competition

Important news for lottery winners who have just missed the sold-out McLaren 765LT: there is now also an open variant of the steroids-720S. The McLaren 765LT Spider will be built in an edition of 765 copies.

- Flop - Want a round steering wheel in your Tesla Model S or Model X? Then you're out of luck!

Tesla is weird! The new half steering wheel of the Tesla Model S and Model X looks cool, but works by no means ideal. The most obvious option would therefore be to offer buyers the choice. But that's not how it works at Tesla.

- Flop - Terrorists drive Toyota, that's why you can't resell your Land Cruiser

Something crazy is going on with the new Toyota Land Cruiser. Buyers must sign a statement promising that they will not resell the off-road vehicle abroad within one year. What is Toyota afraid of?

- Flop - Code 78: this is why you don't see more electric training cars

A quarter of driving instructors in the Netherlands are considering purchasing an electric training car within the next five years. Just over 10 percent would prefer to use a hybrid. Why don't driving school owners do that after all? Code 78!