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The Mitsubishi Pajero is coming back. That alone is big news. After disappearing from overseas markets in 2021, one of Mitsubishi’s most iconic off-road names will return to the global stage with a world premiere planned for autumn 2026. The new Pajero will become a proper cross-country SUV again, based on the strong ladder-frame platform of the Mitsubishi Triton pick-up.

At the opening of General Motors’ new design studio in Pasadena, California, GMC revealed two new electric concepts under the Hummer X name: a large pick-up and a more compact SUV. Both are still brutally off-road focused, both are fully electric in spirit, and both are officially not intended for production.

Maserati is back at Monza. And this time, it arrives with more than just race cars. For the opening round of the 2026 GT2 European Series powered by Pirelli, Maserati Corse will line up five Maserati GT2 cars at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza. But the bigger emotional story is the debut of new 250F-inspired liveries for both the Maserati GT2 and the road-going Maserati GT2 Stradale.

Unveiled at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in 2006, the P4/5 was commissioned by American collector James Glickenhaus and built around the mechanical base of a Ferrari Enzo. But calling it an Enzo with a different body would almost be insulting. This was something else and twenty years later, it still looks extraordinary.

This is the kind of automotive detail we love. Ferrari has just introduced the Luce as its first fully electric model, a name that means light or illumination in Italian. Very poetic. Very Ferrari. Very “new era”. Except there is one funny problem. Long before Maranello used it, Luce was already a Mazda. And not just any Mazda.

The new eighth-generation Lexus ES feels more important than usual. Because for the first time, Lexus is not only offering it as a self-charging hybrid. The ES is now also fully electric, larger than before and positioned directly in the territory of cars like the BMW i5, Audi A6 e-tron, Mercedes-Benz EQE and Volvo ES90.

The Ferrari Luce has barely arrived, and the first more aggressive reinterpretation is already here. This one comes from Venuum Black, and after seeing the renders, the idea becomes very clear: take Ferrari’s controversial electric grand tourer and make it look like it finally got angry. And honestly? It works better than expected.

This could be the BYD that really starts bothering Europe as the new BYD Dolphin G DM-i appears to understand exactly what many European buyers want right now: a compact, efficient, practical car that does not force them fully electric yet. A plug-in hybrid hatchback with more than 1,000 km of combined range, B-segment dimensions, sharp pricing ambitions and European production on the horizon? That is not just another BYD launch. That is a warning shot.

At Circuit Paul Ricard, 81-year-old Jacky Ickx climbed into the cockpit of the Genesis GMR-001 Hypercar for a symbolic test with Genesis Magma Racing. A six-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, two-time Formula 1 runner-up and Paris-Dakar winner, Ickx is not just a former racing driver. He is endurance racing history. And for a few laps, history drove the future.