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On a hot June day, a car parked in direct sun can reach interior temperatures above 60 degrees Celsius within an hour. Most drivers reach straight for the air conditioning. The better move is to ventilate first, and there is a specific sequence that cools your car significantly faster than blasting cold air into a superheated cabin.

Toyota has won the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans. The #7 GR010 Hybrid, driven by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries, crossed the line 11 seconds ahead of the BMW #20 M Hybrid V8 to give the Japanese manufacturer its sixth overall victory at La Sarthe and its first since 2022.

Toyota and Jaguar Land Rover are publicly opposing the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act, which would require 70% of car components to be sourced from within Europe. Both manufacturers warn that the policy will drive up production costs, reduce investment in the region, and make European cars even less competitive against Chinese rivals — the precise opposite of what Brussels intends.

MG, the historically British brand now owned by Chinese manufacturer SAIC, is returning to European manufacturing for the first time in over a decade. A new plant in Galicia, Spain, backed by around €200 million in investment, is set to create 2,000 jobs and start production in 2028. The move is strategically significant: EU import tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles make local European production not just appealing, but financially essential.

Michelin's new 2026 Le Mans Hypercar tyre, the Pilot Sport Endurance, arrives with a visible tread pattern on an otherwise pure slick. The pattern disappears within three laps. Its purpose is not grip. It is there to mark that this tyre is made from 50% recycled and renewable materials, a first for endurance racing, and Michelin wanted that visible.

Koenigsegg has invented eight engineering technologies that the rest of the car industry either took years to copy or still cannot match. From the world's first 800V production car battery to a gearbox that can jump from 9th to 2nd gear in 30 milliseconds, this is the full list.

The Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut has just posted two of the most significant performance numbers in production car history. At Koenigsegg's test facility in Sweden, test driver Markus Lundh drove the 1,193 kW hypercar to an 8.88-second quarter mile and a standing half-mile exit speed of 359.83 km/h, completing the run in 13.27 seconds. Both are world records for gas-powered production cars.

Bovensiepen has posted a single image and three words: "More tomorrow. Stay ready." The teaser shows a close-up of a grille bearing the Bovensiepen name, overlaid with the line "The Next Chapter of Fine Driving." It is deliberately minimal. But if the rumours circulating around the brand are accurate, what is coming is anything but small.

Bentley has opened its new state-of-the-art paint facility at its Crewe headquarters, marking the occasion with the launch of SpectraFlare Finish, a proprietary paint technology that creates a shifting, multi-dimensional colour effect unlike anything previously offered on a production car.