Spyker is back, unveiling the C8 Preliator XXV Coupé at Monterey: an 800 hp twin-turbo V8 with a real six-speed manual, hand-built in a run of just 25 cars at around 2,100 hours each, with founder Victor Muller returned. After going bankrupt and swallowing Saab, the Dutch marque has died repeatedly chasing volume it could never fund. This time the plan is the opposite: refuse to scale, and sell craft and the manual to 25 collectors. Its smallness is finally the point.

Brabus has revealed the Bodo Cabriolet, the open-top version of its 1,000 hp V12 tribute to founder Bodo Buschmann, built like the coupe on an Aston Martin Vanquish and limited to 77 cars. Mechanically it mirrors the coupe, but the roof is the story: a brand-new, front-engined, twelve-cylinder convertible grand tourer is now nearly extinct. Mercedes and Bentley have abandoned the format, leaving only Ferrari and Aston, which is why this German tribute had to be built on a British car.

Cadillac revealed the V-One, a single-seat, track-only concept with an 842 hp hybrid V8 that shares suspension hardware with its Le Mans-winning V-Series.R and aims to lap within 10% of it. Almost every concept claims a racing bloodline; the V-One is the rare one that can prove it. After twenty years of the V badge borrowing a performance image it had not earned, Cadillac's real endurance wins mean the pedigree is finally a parts list, not a costume.

The Revuelto SV is the most powerful Lamborghini ever, 1,065 hp, with a naturally aspirated 6.5-litre V12 that revs to 9,500 rpm and a Hockenheim production lap record. Lamborghini calls it its purest DNA, yet it is also its most electrified car, a plug-in hybrid with three motors. That is not a contradiction: the electric hardware is exactly what lets an atmospheric V12 survive modern rules. The battery is not the enemy of the twelve, it is its life support.

A WirtschaftsWoche report says Porsche will wind down the Taycan by 2030 after sales collapsed from nearly 41,000 in 2023 to around 6,000 in the first half of 2026. Porsche has not confirmed it. The easy conclusion is that Porsche's electric flagship failed and the EV boom is over. It is the wrong one: in the same period Porsche's electric Macan thrived. The Taycan is not being killed by electricity but by a body style, the sports sedan, which is dying across every fuel type.

RUF unveiled the Ehra, a 650 hp widebody supercar built on its carbon-fibre monocoque chassis, at The Quail during Monterey Car Week, and named it after the Ehra-Lessien track where the CTR Yellowbird set its 1987 speed record.