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RM Sotheby's sold a 2023 Ferrari Daytona SP3 for $17,825,000 at its Monterey sale, nearly $6 million over estimate and enough to make it the most expensive non-charity Ferrari ever auctioned.

Voyah, Dongfeng's premium EV brand, recreated the famous 2010 Mercedes SLS AMG Schumacher tunnel-loop stunt with its new Passion S, driving a full 360-degree loop at about 130 km/h. It claims the first unmodified production car to do it, with the full battery kept and no visual effects. The twist: the original ad was itself long doubted as fake, and Voyah got accused of the same, so it released uncut footage to prove it. In the deepfake era, the proof is the real product.

Airion Automotive, a new Berlin brand, has unveiled a Porsche 993 restomod that refuses the two things the genre is built on: nostalgia and a power arms race. Developed with design studio BorromeodeSilva and race engineers HWA, it keeps the air-cooled flat-six, now a 400+ hp 4.3-litre, the most powerful naturally aspirated 993 yet, but its design looks forward, imagining how the air-cooled 911 might have evolved after 1998. Fifty will be built from 895,000 euros. It is a restomod pointed at the future, not the past.

Range Rover has revealed the SV Pearl Luster at Pebble Beach, a one-of-one commission finished in a bespoke White Pearl Gloss inspired by the endangered White Abalone shell, with Orchid leather and Mother of Pearl inlays. Engine and price are undisclosed; guests at Range Rover House get first refusal, and a donation benefits the Monterey Bay sanctuary. It is less a car launch than a hospitality one: at this level, the car is the trophy and access is the real product.

Max Verstappen has unveiled a Delftware-inspired blue-and-white helmet for the 2026 Dutch Grand Prix on 21-23 August, the last one at Zandvoort after the promoter declined a long-term deal. He calls it a homage to the Netherlands, but the race was really built on him: it returned in 2021 to ride Verstappen-mania. It is leaving just as his dominance fades, sixth in the standings and 110 points behind the leader. The success was rented from one man, and the lease is up.

Fiat has given the Topolino a summer refresh: a Dolcevita version with a roll-up canvas roof and side doors from €10,490, and a Vilebrequin Collectors Edition from €13,490 tied to the French swimwear brand. The base electric quadricycle stays at €9,990. That price is the real story: the affordable EV everyone claims does not exist has been on sale all along. Fiat's trick is selling radically less car as radically more lifestyle, making small feel aspirational rather than a sacrifice.

LEGO revealed the 43024 Ayrton Senna Helmet, a 931-piece set celebrating Senna's 1988 championship helmet, the first historical driver to join its Formula 1 Helmet Collection, releasing 1 September.

The Kia PV5, the first van Kia has ever built, took 37% of Europe's small electric van market in the first half of 2026, selling 13,116 units and finishing first in twelve countries. It beat Ford, Mercedes and Renault, makers with a century of van experience, for one reason: theirs are electric conversions of diesel vans, while the PV5 was built from scratch as an EV, with a flat floor and up to 416 km of range. It also proves EV demand is not dead, just discriminating.

The UK is putting nearly £130 million, about 150 million euros, into electric vehicles, and the framing calls it stimulating electric driving. But the announced breakdown contains no charging money and no purchase grants; it is all supply-side, from domestic lithium and rare-earth-free motors to battery recycling and university research. The real theme is reducing dependence on China to build EVs, not getting Britons to buy them. It is industrial rescue mislabelled as consumer stimulus, and at this scale, only a down payment.