Bentley has built a one-off Mulliner Continental GTC to mark 80 years of its Crewe factory, with fade paint, an embroidered 80 and an airbrushed image of the Design Studio. The site began in 1938 building Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engines for Spitfires, turning to cars only in 1946. With Bentley going all-electric by 2035, the anniversary quietly doubles as a countdown for the combustion craft it celebrates.

European diesel stockpiles are on course for their lowest level since 2015, according to separate warnings from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. A leaked Iranian plan to restrict shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has only sharpened the risk.

The Netherlands became the first EU country to approve Tesla's Full Self-Driving system in April 2026. Email correspondence obtained by Reuters now shows the regulator agreed, at Tesla's own request, to keep the entire safety case confidential.

TOMOELL has put a new 1,925-piece LEGO Subaru Impreza WRC up for a vote on LEGO Ideas, in Colin McRae's blue and gold livery, months after an earlier version of the same car reached the required 10,000 supporters and was still turned down at the official review stage.

Smart wanted to reveal its new #2 city car gradually, through a global street art campaign building anticipation for an October unveiling at the Paris motor show. A Chinese homologation filing skipped straight to the spec sheet, two months early.

Andreas Preuninger has run Porsche's GT division for nearly 25 years, has not missed once across 26 models by his own count, and says the hardest part of his job now is not building a faster car. It is keeping Brussels out of the way of a good one.