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The V16 Era Begins: Bugatti's Tourbillon Redraws the Hypercar Map
Bugatti has replaced the Chiron's quad-turbo W16 with an 8.3-litre naturally aspirated V16 and a Rimac-developed hybrid system for a combined 1,800 PS. Deliveries are expected to begin before the end of 2026, and all 250 cars are already sold.
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The Ferrari F80, One Year In: Maranello's V6 Flagship Finds Its Feet
First customer cars arrived in December 2025, and the F80 is now in owners' hands on both sides of the Atlantic. It is the fastest road car Ferrari has ever built, and the most argued-over.
Cars
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.
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.
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The W1 Waiting Game: McLaren's Flagship and the Delivery Question
McLaren's 1,258 hp W1 had its first media drives in the middle of 2026. As September ends, no customer handover has been publicly confirmed, while Ferrari's rival F80 has begun reaching owners.
Cars
Torque Fill: How the Lamborghini Temerario's Hybrid V8 Rewrites the Rules
The Huracan's naturally aspirated V10 is gone. In its place: a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 that revs to 10,000 rpm and three electric motors that erase turbo lag. The Temerario makes 920 PS, and the electricity is the point.
Cars
The Electric Turbo, Perfected: Inside the 911 Turbo S T-Hybrid
Two electric turbochargers, a 3.6-litre flat-six and 701 hp. The new 911 Turbo S laps the Nurburgring 14 seconds faster than its predecessor, and turbo lag is officially history.
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The Transfagarasan: A Driver's Guide to the World's Most Famous Road
Ninety kilometres, 2,042 metres, five tunnels and one Balea Tunnel. Romania's DN7C is usually open from late June to late October. Here is how to drive it properly.
Drive
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
What makes an automobile significant
Speed is the easiest thing to measure and the least interesting thing to ask. Drawing on the Gordon Murray T.50, the Ferrari Amalfi, the Porsche 911 GT3, and the Aston Martin Vanquish, this essay sets out the criteria by which a car earns lasting significance: engineering, design, innovation, craft, rarity, provenance, culture, and the driving experience.
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Collecting
Retromobile 2026: The Auctions That Moved the Market
Gooding and Christie's replaced Artcurial as the official Retromobile auctioneer and topped the week with a record 9.1 million euro Ferrari 288 GTO. The message from Paris: the market has moved on, and it is choosing its icons carefully.
Collecting
Preservation vs Restoration: The Collector's Hardest Choice
A barn find with its history intact or a concours winner with its history erased? As the market learns to price originality, the preservation class has become the most interesting argument in collecting.
Collecting
Restored Twice, Correct Once: The Duesenberg SSJ's Long Road Back to Black Lacquer
Harry Yeaggy's Pebble Beach-winning 1935 Duesenberg SSJ was stripped to a bare chassis and rebuilt around fragments of original paint. Inside the forensic approach to restoration.
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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.
Design
Written in Light: How Headlights Became Brand Signatures
The daytime running light is the most valuable square centimetre in car design. From Porsche's four-point stare to the industry's light-bar consensus, the night has become the new brand identity.
Design
Coachbuilding's New Generation
Touring Superleggera, Zagato and Nardone Automotive are building some of the most considered cars of the decade. Here is what is real, what it costs, and what it is based on.
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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.
Motorsport
Dacia Does the Impossible: Al-Attiyah Wins the 2026 Dakar
On only its second attempt, Dacia has won the Dakar Rally. Nasser Al-Attiyah and Fabian Lurquin took the Sandrider to overall victory in January: the Qatari's sixth Dakar win and the Romanian brand's first.
Motorsport
Revival 2026: Lotterer and Halusa Win the TT as Goodwood Reinvents Sunday
The 2026 Goodwood Revival ended with a duel for the ages in the RAC TT Celebration, a first Sunday Closing Party, and a reminder that historic racing is a living sport.
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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 Bugelfalte Triumphs: Villa d'Este 2026 Crowns Its Best of Show
A one-off 1937 BMW 328 with a Soviet past and a MiG designer in its history has won the Trofeo BMW Group at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. The 2026 edition belonged to the 90-year-old 328.
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.
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View all →A curated editorial selection of things serious automotive readers would genuinely put on the radar. Not a shop: we do not sell these, and we do not rank them by price.
Dents Winchester Men's Handsewn Deerskin Leather Driving Gloves
$273.00 USD
Piloti Compass, Black
$298.00 USD
Bric's Life Pelle Small Cargo Duffle Bag 28L
$1,050.00 USD
Ultimate Collector Cars by Peter and Charlotte Fiell (TASCHEN)
$250.00 USD
Amalgam Collection Ferrari 12Cilindri (2024), 1:8 scale
£13,495.00 GBP
Wera Tool-Check PLUS 1, 39 pieces (05049055001)
£101.72 GBP
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What makes an automobile significant
Speed is the easiest thing to measure and the least interesting thing to ask. Drawing on the Gordon Murray T.50, the Ferrari Amalfi, the Porsche 911 GT3, and the Aston Martin Vanquish, this essay sets out the criteria by which a car earns lasting significance: engineering, design, innovation, craft, rarity, provenance, culture, and the driving experience.
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