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The Rezvani Beast X is a Chevrolet Corvette C8 E-Ray buried under wild, concept-car bodywork with scissor doors and a roof snorkel. Rezvani claims a combined 1,560 hp and will build only five, with pricing yet to be announced. It is the purest example of Rezvani's real business: selling drama, rarity and disguise rather than genuine re-engineering.

Nissan has set a Guinness World Record by driving a Qashqai e-Power 1,980 km on a single tank, without refuelling or recharging, from Bogota to Colombia's Caribbean coast. That works out to about 2.8 litres per 100 km, though real-world economy is nearer 5. The bigger story is the irony: the company that launched the modern EV with the Leaf is now flexing a car whose whole appeal is never needing to charge.

The new Mitsubishi ASX VR-e is a lightly restyled Foxtron, the EV arm of iPhone-assembler Foxconn, designed by Italy's Pininfarina and rebadged by Mitsubishi. It offers up to 400 hp, a 57.7 kWh battery and launches in Australia this year. Fans wanted a new Pajero; they got a car in which Mitsubishi designed, engineered and built nothing, and the real story is Foxconn's plan to become the contract builder of the car world.

SAIC-GM has opened pre-orders in China for the 2027 Buick Electra L7 BEV, a fully electric flagship sedan with up to 702 km of range starting at 169,900 yuan, roughly €21,800. It is built exclusively for the Chinese market, with no export plans anywhere else.

Porsche Classic has extended its PCCM Plus retrofit head unit to the 997.2 and 991.1 generation 911, plus the 987.2 and 981 generation Boxster and Cayman, finally bringing wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to cars built up to 2016.

The 9ff GT9 is one of the wildest cars ever built on a Porsche 911, a mid-engined conversion of a 997 designed to beat the Bugatti Veyron. The range-topping GT9-R made around 1,120 hp and hit roughly 414 km/h, edging past the Veyron, with only about 20 built. Now a rare Gulf-liveried GT9 Clubsport, with 750 hp and a 364 km/h top speed, is heading to auction on Collecting Cars.

Around 100 cars and motorcycles from the estate of Willy Michiels, the Belgian gaming tycoon and three-time Haaltert mayor known as Bingo Willy, go to RM Sotheby's online from 8 September, every lot with no reserve. The Mercedes-heavy collection, from a 1970 600 Pullman to a 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom I, is a self-portrait of a farmer's son who bought what he loved. With no minimums, real bargains are on the table.

Q by Aston Martin has created five one-of-one Heritage Edition commissions, a DB12 Volante and Coupe, a Vanquish and a Vantage Coupe and Roadster, each finished in a colour from Aston's 1960s and 70s heyday, from Pale Primrose to Tudor Green. The catch: all five are exclusive to a single dealer in Newport Beach, California, thousands of kilometres from the British history they celebrate. So where, we ask, is the European version?

Hennessey has revealed the Maximus, a supercharged Ram 1500 Rumble Bee SRT tuned to 1,032 hp and 1,283 Nm, with an estimated 200 mph top speed that the truck can only reach once its own rear wing has been unbolted.