Top and flop: the good and bad news of week 14

+ Top - Kia amazes us again, now with the EV6 GT

For exciting electric cars you should not go to the German brands, but to Hyundai and Kia. Take the Kia EV6 GT, a beast with plug and 585 hp. Five hundred and eighty-five! And then he also has a mysterious green button...

+ Top - A new DeLorean is coming! Still in 2022!

The DeLorean brand has grown together with the Back to the Future films, but now shows itself from its most climate-friendly side. An electric DeLorean will be on the market in 2022. We don't know yet what it will look like. But one detail is already known: it will have gull-wing doors. Just like in the movie.

+ Top - Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Lancia rise from the ashes

News from three Italian brands in one week? That has never happened in the last ten years. Lancia revealed that its compact SUV, which will hit the market in 2024, will be called Aurelia. Alfa Romeo did not lag behind and reported that the Giulia successor will be fully electric in 2027. And Fiat? That comes after a million billion years of waiting, finally with a new, electric Punto in 2023.

- Flop - A meager four-cylinder in a chic Mercedes SL

There you are in the driveway of your paid off detached house, bragging to the neighbor about your new SL. Until he - drink in one hand, cigar in the other - asks if he can take a look under the hood. A four-cylinder in a Mercedes SL? Muha! The fact that he delivers no less than 395 hp is no longer impressive.

- Flop - Almost three quarters of drivers are behind the wheel texting

And not only behind the wheel of the car, also on the (electric) bicycle people are texting and calling that it is a delight. Young people in particular cannot keep their hands off their phone, 85 percent of 12 to 17-year-olds cycle while texting. And why not, the chance of being caught by phone or texting behind the wheel is extremely low.

- Flop - Tesla secretly undresses the Dutch buyer of an electric car

At Tesla, they are as transparent as the Kremlin's Information Department. And so the price of the Model 3 and Model Y went up from 3000 to 4000 euros. Without any publicity being given to it. Of all versions? No, strangely enough, the Model Y Performance was 5 euros cheaper.