Maserati built a one-off MCPura that tells the story of its first 100 years

Bugatti has revealed the Destrier, a one-off Solitaire commission built on the track-only Bolide's carbon monocoque and 1,600 PS W16, but stripped of all aerodynamic addenda to focus purely on proportion. It debuts at Pebble Beach on 16 August 2026.

Lamborghini confirms the Revuelto SV lapped the Hockenheimring in 1:41.6, the fastest time ever recorded there by a production car, ahead of its world premiere on 14 August at The Quail during Monterey Car Week. No power, torque, or weight figures have been released yet.

Belgian Mobility Minister Jean-Luc Crucke wants to study banning young drivers from powerful cars, following France and Italy. Road safety institute Vias says only 3 percent of serious crashes involving 18-24 year olds involve a car over 200 hp, versus 6 percent across the whole population.

Porsche CEO Michael Leiters has confirmed the electric 718 Boxster and Cayman are moving ahead, calling it the best economic solution after a year of reversals over the car's future. He said nothing about whether a combustion version still survives alongside it.

The French gendarmerie's rapid intervention unit in Écalles-Alix, Normandy, has put a seized Audi RS3 Sportback into active service for highway pursuits. The 400 hp car was confiscated from a drug trafficker in 2022 and refitted for police use for around €1,500.

Lucid is delaying the Cosmos, its sub-$50,000 EV, from 2026 to the second half of 2027, tying the delay to an operational reset that includes production cuts and $1.4 billion in identified cash flow improvements. CEO Silvio Napoli says the Air and Gravity both launched a bit in haste, and he does not want to repeat that mistake.

Mercedes-AMG has revealed the GT 53 4-Door Coupé, its new entry-level model below the GT 55 and GT 63, with 544 hp, all-wheel drive, and a WLTP range up to 809 km. It starts at €115,430 and arrives in Germany on 13 August 2026.

Audi has confirmed pricing and specifications for the A2 e-tron, a compact EV starting at €38,200 that claims 12.8 kWh per 100 km on the WLTP cycle, making it the most efficient car the brand has ever built. It arrives in full this autumn.

Rubau Cars, a Girona-based coachbuilder founded by designer Josep Rubau, has unveiled a windscreen-less speedster built on the Porsche 718 Spyder RS. Only 19 examples will be built, each honouring a year from Porsche's record 19 overall Le Mans victories.

Audi is marking 50 years of its five-cylinder engine with the exhibition "1-2-4-5-3: 50 years of Audi five-cylinder engines" at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt, running from 1 August 2026 to 28 February 2027. The show gathers 14 vehicles and seven engines tracing the story from the 1976 Audi 100 to the modern TT RS.

The Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 4MATIC+ lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:32.070 on 28 July, making it the fastest four-door coupé ever recorded around the circuit and beating a Porsche Taycan Turbo S. The record was set in a completely stock, fully electric car with three motors and 680 hp.

ROADPOL's August Speedweek runs from 3 to 9 August 2026, with around 15,000 officers checking roughly 3 million vehicles and issuing about 150,000 tickets across participating European countries. German research into past editions found the crash reduction does not outlast the enforcement week itself.

Peregryn Motors, a newly formed US company, says it has acquired the IP, rights, and tooling for the entire Ultima Cars range from British manufacturer Ultima Sports Ltd. Production of two US-built models, the GT-R and GT-S, is set to begin in 2027 from around 195,000 dollars, with existing UK orders unaffected.

Pfaff Motorsports won the Lamborghini Temerario GT3's first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Road America, with Andrea Caldarelli and Sandy Mitchell sharing the GTD Pro class-winning number 9 car. The result also ended a 36-race winless streak for the Canadian team stretching back more than three years.

Novitec has extended its Ferrari 12Cilindri tuning programme to the Spider with a full exposed-carbon aerodynamic kit, new NF12 wheels developed with Vossen, lowered sport springs, and an exhaust system controllable through the Manettino dial. The naturally aspirated V12 stays at its factory-rated 830 hp and 678 Nm.

Lamborghini unveiled the Revuelto Miura 60 Homage at Monterey Car Week, a 99-unit special edition marking 60 years since the Miura's debut with two-tone liveries, cannelloni-pattern seats, and Miura-inspired colours. The mechanical package is unchanged from the standard Revuelto, at 1,015 hp combined and 807 Nm of torque.

Hennessey revealed the Blackbird, its second clean-sheet hypercar after the Venom F5, powered by an 800 to 850 hp naturally aspirated V8 with no turbos, hybrid assistance, or all-wheel drive. It debuts at The Quail on August 14, priced from 2.5 million dollars before tax, with more than two-thirds of the 71-car run already reserved.

Toyota Gazoo Racing's GR GT, described as the spiritual successor to the Lexus LFA, arrives in 2027 as a standard road car and a more aggressive track variant. The standard car pairs a 4.0-liter twin-turbo hybrid V8 with 650 hp, while the hotter version has already been spotted testing at the Nurburgring against a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, before the base model has reached a single customer.

RM Sotheby's sold a 1993 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 3.8 Strassenversion at Woodcote Park for 3,492,500 pounds, about 4.09 million euro. The same chassis has now sold three times, in 2017, 2023, and 2026, with the odometer reading exactly 10 km on every occasion, and the price roughly doubling since 2023 alone.

Apple announced two CarPlay upgrades coming with iOS 27: full video playback on the dashboard screen, which no automaker has yet confirmed support for, and a location-services overhaul that makes CarPlay's GPS far more accurate in tunnels, parking garages, and dense cities. Only one of them needs a carmaker's cooperation to actually work.

Kia has added a seven-seat version of its all-electric PV5 Passenger shuttle, previously only available with five seats. Orders are open from 39,790 euro including VAT, with deliveries from October 2026, though the third row shrinks boot space to 318 liters.

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna confirmed on the brand's latest earnings call that two more new models will debut before the end of 2026, likely an F80 Aperta and a track-focused 12Cilindri variant. He also made a pointed case for biofuels as a carbon-neutral path for combustion engines, alongside an order book already full through 2027.

The 2026 Shelby F-150 Super Snake Sport is a two-door, regular-cab street truck starting at an estimated 115,795 dollars with the standard 400 hp Coyote V8. An optional Shelby Stage 2 supercharger pushes output past 810 hp, making it the cheapest yet most straightforward truck in Shelby's six-model 2026 lineup.

Digital artist Mike G., of the 'mike.g.concepts' studio, has reimagined the 1964 Lamborghini 350 GT, the brand's first production road car, as a modern grand tourer called the 650 GT Feroce. It exists only as an Instagram rendering, powered in the artist's imagination by the Revuelto's naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V12.

Milton Verret, a noted Ferrari collector, commissioned Karosserie in Wayne, Pennsylvania to strip his 2005 Porsche Carrera GT to its carbon fiber tub and repaint it in Rosso Fuoco, a genuine Ferrari factory color. The mechanically original car, chassis 728 of 1,270 built, heads to Mecum's Monterey auction as Lot S74 on August 15, 2026.