https://roadandmotor.com/ Significant automobiles, driving, design and culture en https://roadandmotor.com/cars/mclaren-w1-delivery-gap/ https://roadandmotor.com/cars/mclaren-w1-delivery-gap/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/cars/lamborghini-temerario-hybrid-v8/ https://roadandmotor.com/cars/lamborghini-temerario-hybrid-v8/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/cars/porsche-911-turbo-s-t-hybrid/ https://roadandmotor.com/cars/porsche-911-turbo-s-t-hybrid/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/cars/bentley-continental-gt-speed-v8-hybrid/ https://roadandmotor.com/cars/bentley-continental-gt-speed-v8-hybrid/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Bentley's 6.0-litre W12 has been laid to rest. Its replacement, a 4.0-litre V8 plug-in hybrid called Ultra Performance Hybrid, makes 782 PS and is the most powerful road car the company has ever built. https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/audi-r26-formula-1-debut/ https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/audi-r26-formula-1-debut/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/collecting/retromobile-2026-auction-analysis/ https://roadandmotor.com/collecting/retromobile-2026-auction-analysis/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/culture/jaguar-e-type-at-65/ https://roadandmotor.com/culture/jaguar-e-type-at-65/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/dakar-2026-dacia-triumph/ https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/dakar-2026-dacia-triumph/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/goodwood-revival-2026-race-report/ https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/goodwood-revival-2026-race-report/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/culture/villa-deste-2026-best-of-show/ https://roadandmotor.com/culture/villa-deste-2026-best-of-show/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/design/arcadia-droptail-wood-craft/ https://roadandmotor.com/design/arcadia-droptail-wood-craft/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/drive/transfagarasan-drivers-guide/ https://roadandmotor.com/drive/transfagarasan-drivers-guide/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/design/lighting-signatures-design/ https://roadandmotor.com/design/lighting-signatures-design/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/drive/night-drive-essay/ https://roadandmotor.com/drive/night-drive-essay/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/goodwood-festival-of-speed-2026/ https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/goodwood-festival-of-speed-2026/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Romain Dumas won his third straight Festival of Speed Timed Shoot-Out in Ford's 1,400 hp electric Super Mustang Mach-E. The two fastest cars up the hill were both electric. The hill has delivered its verdict. https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/le-mans-classic-legend-nascar/ https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/le-mans-classic-legend-nascar/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Fifty years after NASCAR's first appearance at Le Mans, 35 stock cars returned for the inaugural HSR NASCAR Classic. Andrew Jordan swept Sunday in an ex-Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota to take overall honours. https://roadandmotor.com/collecting/preservation-vs-restoration/ https://roadandmotor.com/collecting/preservation-vs-restoration/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/cars/ferrari-f80-flagship-hybrid-hypercar/ https://roadandmotor.com/cars/ferrari-f80-flagship-hybrid-hypercar/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/design/coachbuildings-new-generation/ https://roadandmotor.com/design/coachbuildings-new-generation/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/culture/fritz-burkard-pearl-collection-custodian/ https://roadandmotor.com/culture/fritz-burkard-pearl-collection-custodian/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/cars/bugatti-tourbillon-v16-hybrid-era/ https://roadandmotor.com/cars/bugatti-tourbillon-v16-hybrid-era/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/culture/pebble-beach-2026-best-of-show/ https://roadandmotor.com/culture/pebble-beach-2026-best-of-show/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 The Clark Gable SSJ took Best of Show at a landmark edition that also marked the end of Sandra Button's 40-year chairmanship. Notes on what the concours is becoming. https://roadandmotor.com/design/architecture-driving-position/ https://roadandmotor.com/design/architecture-driving-position/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Seat, pedals, sight lines and steering: how a small number of cars got the driver-machine interface right, and what the rest can learn. https://roadandmotor.com/drive/what-makes-an-automobile-significant/ https://roadandmotor.com/drive/what-makes-an-automobile-significant/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/mille-miglia-2026-tonconogy-victory/ https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/mille-miglia-2026-tonconogy-victory/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Juan and Margarita Tonconogy's fourth victory came the hard way, against the most dominant crew in the modern history of the race. Why the Red Arrow still matters, and why winning it is harder than it looks. https://roadandmotor.com/drive/alpine-passes-drivers-guide/ https://roadandmotor.com/drive/alpine-passes-drivers-guide/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 The Stelvio, the Grossglockner, the Route des Grandes Alpes and the Furka-Grimsel loop, measured by what each one asks of car and driver. https://roadandmotor.com/drive/ferrari-amalfi-analysis/ https://roadandmotor.com/drive/ferrari-amalfi-analysis/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Ferrari's Roma successor keeps the front-engine V8 formula and sharpens it on paper: 640 cv, 3.3 seconds to 100 km/h, and a claimed 1,470 kg dry weight. Here is the specification analysis, claim by claim. https://roadandmotor.com/cars/aston-martin-valhalla-production-status/ https://roadandmotor.com/cars/aston-martin-valhalla-production-status/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/le-mans-2026-toyota-triumph/ https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/le-mans-2026-toyota-triumph/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 After three years of Ferrari and a qualifying collapse, the number 7 Toyota won the 94th running of the endurance classic by 11 seconds. What a close finish reveals about modern endurance racing. https://roadandmotor.com/collecting/clark-gable-duesenberg-ssj-restoration/ https://roadandmotor.com/collecting/clark-gable-duesenberg-ssj-restoration/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/design/great-engine-renaissance-v12-v16/ https://roadandmotor.com/design/great-engine-renaissance-v12-v16/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/collecting/monterey-car-week-2026-auction-report/ https://roadandmotor.com/collecting/monterey-car-week-2026-auction-report/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/f1-2026-regulation-reset-engineering/ https://roadandmotor.com/motorsport/f1-2026-regulation-reset-engineering/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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.