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Bentley has revealed the Torcal, its first electric car and the most powerful road car it has ever built. The S version makes 888 hp and 1,350 Nm, reaches 100 km/h in 2.9 seconds and covers 600 km on a charge. Bentley capped that output deliberately: its engineers concluded that anything quicker stops being comfortable.

Opel will unveil the STX Concept at the Paris Motor Show on 12 October, a design study its chief executive calls a vision for the future of the wagon silhouette and the first glimpse of the ninth-generation Astra. The name stands for Sports Tourer eXperimental. Opel has exactly one estate left in its range, and it is the Astra Sports Tourer.

Formula 1 and its engine manufacturers have settled the rules that follow the current cycle: a 3.0-litre V8 that keeps its turbocharger, an electric motor cut from 350 kW to 100 kW, and a power unit at least 50 kg below today's 185 kg minimum. A naturally aspirated V8 was rejected on noise limits at six venues, and a 2030 debut is on the table.

Nissan has revealed the electric Pixo, a 3,796 mm city car with a 27.5 kWh LFP battery, 259 km of WLTP range and 50 kW DC charging on every grade. It weighs 1,285 kg, seats four adults and reserves 50 of its 356 boot litres for charging cables. Renault builds it in Slovenia and pricing follows in December.

Tuner Brabus has turned the Mercedes-AMG G 63 into the 900 Rocket Edition Cabrio, a four-door convertible limited to ten cars worldwide. The soft top uses more than 500 newly developed components and every car spends over ten hours in a climate chamber before delivery. Mercedes has been teasing its own open four-door G since December 2025 and has yet to show one.

MCA built five Centenaire coupes in Monaco between 1990 and 1992, each around a full carbon-fibre monocoque and a 455 hp Lamborghini Countach V12. Broad Arrow will offer the first of them at its Zoute Concours Auction in Knokke-Heist on 9 October, with an estimate of €900,000 to €1,200,000. The car spent a decade inside Lamborghini's Sant'Agata factory.

Porsche has patented a dual-clutch gearbox that switches between full automatic, paddle-shift sequential and a real H-pattern with a working clutch pedal, none of it mechanically connected. Published at the European Patent Office on 20 September, the filing covers combustion and hybrid cars, which is the 911 architecture Porsche said in August could not take a manual.

EU fuel set a record in the week of 14 September: €2.063 a litre for petrol and €2.159 for diesel, the highest in a European Commission series that begins in 2005. ECB experts expect diesel refining margins to peak in October. France's 16 percent of stations short of a fuel is 91 percent one company's price cap, not a supply failure.

Renault has built a 1,500-unit limited edition of the Rafale called hypnotic, priced at €63,550 in France against €60,250 for the Atelier Alpine it is based on. The four options it makes standard cost €3,600 on that car, so the exclusive paint, wheels and numbered plate effectively cost nothing. Orders open on 1 October in 14 countries.