Latest

Cars

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

Cars

The W12 Is Gone. The Continental GT Speed Is Stronger.

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

Drive

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

Motorsport

41.97 Seconds: Dumas and the Electric Conquest of the Goodwood Hill

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.

2026-09-25

Motorsport

Stock Cars at La Sarthe: The NASCAR Classic Steals Le Mans

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.

2026-09-25

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.

2026-09-25

Cars

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.

2026-09-23

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.

2026-09-23

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.

2026-09-22

Cars

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.

2026-09-21

Culture

The 75th Pebble Beach Concours: A Duesenberg, a Farewell, and the State of the Art

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.

2026-09-21

Design

The Architecture of a Great Driving Position

Seat, pedals, sight lines and steering: how a small number of cars got the driver-machine interface right, and what the rest can learn.

2026-09-21

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.

2026-09-21

Motorsport

A Streak Ends on the Ramp in Brescia: The 2026 Mille Miglia

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.

2026-09-18

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.

2026-09-18

Drive

Ferrari Amalfi: the numbers behind Maranello's new front-engine grand tourer

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.

2026-09-18

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.

2026-09-16

Motorsport

Toyota's Patience, Rewarded: The 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans

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.

2026-09-16

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.

2026-09-15

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.

2026-09-14

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.

2026-09-14

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.

2026-09-10