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WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca has renamed Turns 8 and 8A the Zanardi Corkscrew, honouring the two-time CART champion who died on 1 May at 59. The dedication came 30 years after Alex Zanardi's final-lap pass on Bryan Herta at that corner, a move that put his inside wheels in the dirt and that today's track-limits rules would punish. The permanent monument exists so far only as a rendering.

Skoda drove a standard Peaq 90 for 936 km from Mladá Boleslav to Zandvoort on a single charge, with TÜV SÜD supervising. The car beat its own 647 km WLTP rating by 289 km on 86 kWh of usable battery, at an average of 9.2 kWh/100 km. It left at midday on Tuesday and only finished the run on Wednesday afternoon.

BMW Welt closed the only exhibition that has ever gathered all 20 BMW Art Cars, drawing more than 120,000 visitors in 34 days. It ended an 18-month world tour that ran to 60 stops and over two million visitors. Five of the cars now live on as selectable widgets on BMW's Panoramic Vision display, and they all come from the same six-year stretch of the collection.

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.