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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.

2026-11-05

Cars

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.

2026-11-05

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.

2026-11-05

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.

2026-10-15

Design

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.

2026-10-15

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.

2026-10-08

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.

2026-10-08

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.

2026-10-01

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.

2026-10-01

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.

2026-10-01

Cars

Paris 2026: The Small Car Strikes Back

The 91st Mondial de l'Auto opens on 13 October with more than 100 exhibitors across five halls. The themes are retro design and the return of the small car, from a reborn Audi A2 to a new Citroen 2CV priced under 15,000 euros.

2026-09-27

Cars

Thirty Cars, Zero Left: The Mercedes-AMG CLE 646 Mythos

The second car in AMG's ultra-exclusive Mythos series packs a 646 PS flat-plane V8, rear-wheel drive and hand-built Affalterbach assembly. All 30 were sold before the public reveal. Mercedes-AMG never even published a price.

2026-09-27

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.

2026-09-27

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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