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Volvo has begun production of the new ES 90. That's their saloon, sedan, fastback. They say it's got some SUV hints to it as well. Look, you're not really no.

Maybe it sits a little bit higher with its seven inches or 18 centimeters of ground clearance, but still it is a big Volvo saloon sedan.

Fastback though, so you can open up that boot and put the back seats flat. It's got 680 horsepower in its top trim.

106 kilowatt hour battery, 800-volt architecture, up to 350 kilowatt DC fast charging.

They say stop for 10 minutes and you'll add 186 miles.

Long vehicle, this 5 meters long.

It's got LIDAR and loads of sensors.

Very, very safe.

Runs Google as well with Gemini, their AI, which I use quite

a lot of because I pay for the Google One package because of all the storage and stuff, and it's very good.

And so looking forward to that vehicle, Mercedes has revealed the interior of the new GLC ahead of the

full launch soon. It has a one metre wide or 40 inch wide hyper screen.

Biggest screen they've put in a car. That's a big old slab of glass.

South Korea is protesting. The US, the immigration officials raided a Hyundai site in Georgia

yesterday and detained hundreds of workers over the suspicion that they

didn't have all the correct paperwork, whether they were coming in for a business meeting

and were not on the right kind of visa waiver program, or we don't know, but immigration

officials taking people away in zip-tied handcuffs, South Korea dispatching the consoles and ministries from across the US to set up a task force and deal with that.

BMW's I-3 has been previewed ahead of its launch.

Yesterday we talked about the I-X-3.

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