Top and flop: the good and bad car news of week 9

+ Top - This is the beautiful Polestar O2! Tesla can make haste with the Roadster

Tesla keeps delaying its new Roadster. So Polestar eagerly jumps into the electric sports car hole. Introducing the spectacular Polestar O2, an open concept car with design touches from the upcoming Polestar 5.

+ Top - Is there a better name than Wuling MINI EV GameBoy Party Sweetheart Edition?

Asian brands and English car names is not a happy combination. But you can of course look at it differently. Because let's face it: Wuling MINI EV GameBoy Party Sweetheart Edition is the best name ever, isn't it?

+ Top - Kia EV6 becomes European Car of the Year 2022

This year's European Car of the Year election was incredibly exciting. Three models continued to compete for victory until the last. The electric Kia EV6 - voted Auto Review Car of the Year by us in December - narrowly beat the Renault Megane E-Tech Electric and Hyundai Ioniq 5.

- Flop - Bizarre! Recommended retail price of petrol makes a huge jump to more than 2.30 euros per liter

The crisis in Ukraine is getting worse. And that is why the national suggested retail price of petrol made a huge jump yesterday. In one go from 2.27 euros to more than 2.30 euros. Price increases are expected to continue in rapid succession.

- Flop - There are now 1000 Porsches and Lamborghinis on the seabed

The Felicity Ace - the freighter with 4000 cars of the Volkswagen Group on board - has sunk in the Azores. It had been floating around on fire for nearly two weeks, carrying more than 1,100 Porsches, some 100 Lamborghinis and nearly 200 Bentleys. So there is now more than 350 million euros worth of 'tin' on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

- Flop - Tesla joystick is stupid. That's why there is secretly a 'round steering' option

Do you remember? Tesla only supplies a strange half steering wheel on the renewed Model S and Model X. A 'yoke', as Tesla calls it. In practice it turns out that it doesn't work for a meter and so there is secretly an option for a normal steering wheel.