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Design house Venuum has revealed the 812 Titan X, an all-new widebody reinterpretation of Ferrari's front-engine V12 812 grand tourer, limited to just 35 examples worldwide. Every surface is reimagined for a wider, lower, more aggressive look, with a redesigned aero package and more sculptural bodywork, while the naturally aspirated V12 is left untouched. Venuum has not disclosed price or full specifications, but it is a genuinely rare, design-led take on one of Ferrari's most beautiful modern cars.

Jaguar Land Rover revealed the Defender Wolf Series II and confirmed a bid for the British Army's Light Mobility Vehicle contract. It is competing against a militarised Ford Ranger, a Toyota Land Cruiser 70, an Ineos Grenadier and a Chevrolet Colorado. The first tranche is 3,000 vehicles, and the minister wants them off the shelf.

Tesla began paid Cybercab rides in Austin with a two-seater that has no steering wheel, no pedals and no brake fluid, and it got there by certifying its own compliance rather than applying for the exemption Zoox needed eleven months to obtain. The NHTSA opened an audit the next day. Europe has no self-certification at all, and its legal route caps a driverless car at 1,500 per type per year.

Bugatti has closed the acoustic development of the Tourbillon's naturally aspirated 8.3-litre V16 and confirmed that nothing reaching the cabin is synthesised. The car had to pass a homologation test with a 72 decibel ceiling, the highest bracket in European noise law, measured across the whole vehicle including its active rear wing. Bugatti's own press release notes that type approval has not been granted yet.

Meyer Shank Racing has signed Mick Schumacher to drive its number 66 Honda in the 2027 IndyCar season, alongside Marcus Armstrong. The move follows Rahal Letterman Lanigan selling one of its charters to Dreyer & Reinbold in July, which cut the team to three cars and left Schumacher without a seat. He replaces Felix Rosenqvist, who won this year's Indianapolis 500 for MSR and leaves for Arrow McLaren.

Volkswagen's supervisory board unanimously approved Future Plan 2030 on 3 September, covering around 50,000 job cuts group-wide and a model range cut in half by 2035. The four German plants named in last week's leaked report were not closed. The board acknowledged it cannot currently secure work for them, and gave itself until the end of June 2027 to decide.

Lamborghini has handed a Temerario to the Italian State Police, the sixth car in a partnership that began with a Gallardo in 2004. The 920 hp hybrid will be used for emergency organ and medical transport alongside the Huracán and Urus Performante already in service. Across more than twenty years the fleet has run over 200 organ missions and appeared at more than 1,500 road safety events.

Xiaomi Auto confirmed at IFA Berlin that it will start selling cars in Germany and other European markets in 2027, and signed memorandums with eight German dealer groups to build its retail and after-sales network. The list includes Emil Frey, Europe's largest dealer group, which announced a separate distribution deal with Lucid in France a day earlier, plus Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari retailers with more than a century of trading behind them.

Pierre Gasly has lost his Monaco Grand Prix podium for the second time, 89 days after the race. The FIA's International Court of Appeal reinstated the pitlane speeding penalties that stewards had rescinded in June, all of it stemming from a 77-centimetre error in the pitlane timing loops. Isack Hadjar inherits third, and Alpine loses nine championship points.