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Aston Martin Valhalla: Seven Years From Concept to Customer Cars
After delays, engineering setbacks and a tariff scare, Aston Martin's first series-production mid-engined supercar is finally being delivered. The 1,079 PS plug-in hybrid had a long road to production.
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Design
The Great-Engine Renaissance: Why the Best Engines Are Being Built Now
V12s revving past 12,000 rpm, a naturally aspirated V16, a turbo V8 that spins to 10,000. Against every prediction, the internal combustion engine's most extraordinary chapter is being written today, with hybridisation as its enabler.
Motorsport
Formula 1's 2026 Reset: The Engineering Behind the New Era
A near-even split between combustion and electric power, active aerodynamics, smaller cars and a new Manual Override: the biggest rules change in a generation has reshaped what a Formula 1 car is. Nine months in, the engineering story is clearer than the championship one.
Collecting
The $747.9 Million Week: What Monterey 2026 Really Said About the Collector Market
Record totals, a new benchmark for American cars, and a charity Ferrari that drew $40 million. A sober look at which numbers deserve the word record, and which merely got loud.
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Above the 911, Permanently: What the Mission S Actually Commits Porsche To
Porsche presented the Mission S in New York on 15 October with no engine, no output figure, no price and no launch date. What it announced instead is the significant part: a mid-engined super sports car platform, positioned above the 911, intended to stay in the range for good.
Cars
Type 01: The Car Jaguar Had to Build
Unveiled in New York on 6 October, the Type 01 is Jaguar's first production car of its reinvention era: a 1,030 PS electric four-door GT on a dedicated architecture, priced from 130,000 GBP. The specification sheet is the real news, because it means the rebrand will now be argued on engineering terms.
Cars
Aston Martin DBX GT: Power, Quietly
The new DBX GT keeps the DBX S's 717 hp V8 and spends its engineering budget on refinement: recalibrated suspension, acoustic glass, memory-foam seats and an exhaust that knows when to whisper. It is the luxury SUV segment's most eloquent argument that serenity is the new performance.
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In Praise of the Night Drive
The best driving happens after dark, when the traffic thins, the headlights carve the road, and the car becomes the only lit room for miles. An essay on motoring's quietest pleasure.
Drive
The Great Alpine Passes: A Driver's Guide to Four High Roads
The Stelvio, the Grossglockner, the Route des Grandes Alpes and the Furka-Grimsel loop, measured by what each one asks of car and driver.
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Collecting
Provenance Is the Product at Zurich
Broad Arrow returns to the Dolder Grand on Saturday 7 November with more than 80 collector cars, almost half of them offered without reserve. The catalogue is built less on horsepower than on paper: a Geneva show car, an unrestored Gullwing offered for the first time in 32 years, and a LaFerrari the room will be allowed to price on its own.
Collecting
Thirty-Four Million Euros in Belgium: What the Zoute Results Actually Say
Broad Arrow's second Zoute Concours Auction totalled 34.6 million euros with a 91 percent sell-through rate, the highest grossing collector car auction in Belgian history. The Holy Trinity cleared ten million euros between three cars, but the most instructive result wore a BMW badge and a Volkswagen engine.
Collecting
Zurich and Nashville: The Week the Modern Hypercar Took the Auction Room
A Veyron at CHF 4,505,000 in Zurich and a $73 million debut in Nashville point the same way: the modern limited-run hypercar now commands the auction room's top lines. Read the prices precisely, though, because the catalogues tell a more selective story than the headlines.
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The A310 Vision Is Not a Car. It Is a Platform Wearing a Memory.
At the Paris Motor Show on 12 October, Alpine showed a one-off concept that revives the 1971 A310: 4.55 metres long, 2.03 metres wide, 1.18 metres tall, and explicitly not a production announcement. What it announces instead is the flexibility of the APP platform that will carry the electric A110.
Design
The A110 Has to Become Electric. Alpine Just Showed Us the Shape of the Answer.
A full-size sculpture unveiled on 28 September previews the third-generation A110, the electric car that must carry Alpine's lightest name. The design keeps the Berlinette's proportions; the Alpine Performance Platform underneath fights the battle that will decide the car's fate: weight.
Design
8,000 Hours of Wood: The Craft Inside the Arcadia Droptail
Rolls-Royce's third Coachbuild Droptail commission uses 233 pieces of Santos Straight Grain timber, a wood so difficult it tears when machined. Developing it took longer than building most cars.
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Motorsport
The Crown Was Arithmetic. The Race Was Lost at Turn 4.
Kimi Antonelli finished third in Mexico City on 1 November and became the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history. The title had been settled by arithmetic long before Sunday. The race itself turned on a first lap fight between two team mates, a red flag, and a restart with eight laps to go.
Motorsport
Eighty-Four Points and a Back-Row Start
Verstappen's first win of 2026 at Sepang stretched Antonelli's lead to 84 points, and Russell starts the Singapore sprint weekend at the back of the grid. The title race is now arithmetic; the interesting questions are about Mercedes' power units and Red Bull Ford's breakthrough.
Motorsport
Audi's First Season: The R26 and the Long Game
Nine months into Audi's first campaign as a full works Formula 1 team, the R26 has gone from Barcelona shakedown to points finishes. The target, a championship by 2030, has not moved.
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Culture
Twenty-One Hypercars, Zero Admission: Inside Wynn's Macau Exhibition
Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace are showing 21 legendary hypercars free to the public until 22 November, headlined by a one-off BAPE-liveried Pagani Huayra R.
Culture
The E-Type at 65: The Shape That Never Left
Unveiled at Geneva in March 1961, the Jaguar E-Type was called the most beautiful car ever made before most people had seen one. Sixty-five years on, its influence is still visible in every long-bonneted sports car.
Culture
The Custodian: Fritz Burkard and the Pearl Collection's Case for Using Cars
The Swiss collector behind one of the world's great private collections does not think of himself as a collector at all. On driving irreplaceable cars, and meaning it.