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Ferrari took its first FIA WEC win of the season at the 6 Hours of COTA, with the No. 50 AF Corse 499P inheriting the lead when the race-leading No. 7 Toyota suffered a hydraulic failure with around 12 minutes to go. Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen won ahead of the JOTA Cadillac and the Alpine A424. Both points co-leaders, the No. 7 Toyota and the No. 20 WRT BMW, scored nothing, blowing the title race wide open, while Heart of Racing's Aston Martin won LMGT3.

Lotus has launched the Emeya 900 Gold in China at 918,000 yuan, about €117,700, with the same 918 hp, 985 Nm and 2.78 seconds to 100 km/h as the Emeya 900 sold in Europe. The carbon-bodied European equivalent starts at €160,990 in Germany. The Eletre 900 Gold does the same at 928,000 yuan.

Geely UK managing director Michael Yang told Autocar the group is developing a charging facility in China rated at 1,800 kW, with completely solid-state cells a few months away. European law asks 400 kW of an entire motorway charging pool today, and 600 kW from the end of 2027.

JLR told staff and unions on 5 September that it is opening a voluntary redundancy programme for salaried and management roles, without naming a figure. The Times and the Financial Times both put it at up to 4,000 posts over two years, around 12% of a 34,000-strong UK workforce. The company wants 1.7 billion pounds of savings and a break-even point of 300,000 vehicles a year.

BMW M chief Frank van Meel says half of all M2s sold in the United States leave with a six-speed manual, and that figure is why the M3 CS Handschalter exists. It is rear-wheel drive, manual-only, and built for North America alone, starting at $108,450. The gearbox behind all of it stops at 480 hp and 550 Nm, and that ceiling decides how long the manual M car lasts.

Kimi Antonelli won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza from 19th on the grid, leading a Mercedes one-two over George Russell with Max Verstappen third, and became the first Italian to win at Monza since Ludovico Scarfiotti in 1966. After a red flag for Charles Leclerc's crash and a run of battery-driven lead changes, a well-timed virtual safety car helped Antonelli to victory by 3.857 seconds. It extends his championship lead to 66 points ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix at Madrid.

Hyundai has opened order books for the Staria Electric, and the nine-seat Trend starts the range at 57,450 euros in Germany with 430 km of WLTP range and an 800-volt system that charges from 10 to 80 percent in 20 minutes. Belgian orders open this month.

F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin, 22, will drive the top-class Peugeot 9X8 for the first time in a private test at Paul Ricard on 2 December, as Peugeot assesses whether the development driver could step up to a reserve role. Pin set the fastest LMP2 qualifying time at Le Mans this year and led the class for three hours before a brake failure. Team boss Emmanuel Esnault says it will be a proper assessment with realistic ballast, and it is not a bid for a full-time 2027 seat.

BMW Welt closed the only exhibition that has ever gathered all 20 BMW Art Cars, drawing more than 120,000 visitors in 34 days. It ended an 18-month world tour that ran to 60 stops and over two million visitors. Five of the cars now live on as selectable widgets on BMW's Panoramic Vision display, and they all come from the same six-year stretch of the collection.