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China exported 7.153 million vehicles between January and August 2026, up 66.7 percent and already past the 7.1 million it shipped in all of 2025, according to CAAM. August alone saw 1.01 million exports while domestic sales fell 24.2 percent and petrol car sales at home nearly halved. Chery leads passenger car exports with 1.32 million, ahead of BYD, which is reported to have ordered ten more 9,200-car ships for delivery between 2027 and 2029.

Bugatti Brussels has moved from D'Ieteren's historic Rue du Mail workshops to a two-car showroom at Grote Baan 399 in Drogenbos, sharing a site with Bentley, Lamborghini and Rimac. Six Tourbillons are allocated to Belgian buyers, none of them registrable until the car is type-approved, and Belgium holds 15 of the 950 W16 Veyrons and Chirons built. The opening came six days after D'Ieteren announced up to 344 job cuts and on the day its automotive margin was reported at 2.1 percent.

Tesla has set 1 October 2026 for the Roadster reveal, with invitations to early reservation holders for an event in Waco, Texas. It is the fifth date given this year after 1 April, late April, "a month or so" and August. Musk said in November 2025 that production follows 12 to 18 months after the demo, Europe still takes €43,000 reservations, and the 2017 claim of 1.9 seconds to 60 mph is already slower than the Rimac Nevera R.

Chery registered 29,000 cars under its own badge in its first year in Britain, and its three UK brands took nearly 8 percent of the market in July. Four new or updated SUVs follow in 2027, led by the 476 hp Tiggo X, all retuned at a new Millbrook R&D centre because, in its UK boss's words, buyers want the German feeling. Germany itself gets the Chery badge in the first half of 2027.

At the New Economy Forum in Madrid, in the week of the Spanish Grand Prix, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said Formula 1 does not need a twelfth team, it needs 'the' team, and it has to come from China. He confirmed meetings with BYD and Geely, told BYD to come back with a serious offer, and ruled out bending the engine rules towards electrification. BYD said in July there is no project.

At the third Tutto Bene Hillclimb on Mottarone on 9 September, Maserati showed the 1958 Eldorado livery on a one-off GT2 race car and a limited GT2 Stradale edition, beside the original 420/M/58 from the Panini collection. The single-seater was Europe's first sponsored racer, funded by Eldorado ice cream. It raced twice, finished seventh once, failed to qualify at Indianapolis, and Maserati still has not said how many road cars get the paint or what it costs.

La Cinquecento, a new studio in West Berkshire founded by photographer Max Kindersley, has turned his family's barn-stored 1973 Fiat 500 into the 500 Scattante, revealed at the Tutto Bene Hillclimb on Mottarone on 9 September. It keeps the rear-engined layout with an 802 cc Fiat 126-derived twin, wears a BorromeodeSilva body and targets about 650 kg against the original's 499 kg, at a price Auto Express puts near £150,000.

ADAC Nordrhein, organiser of the Nürburgring 24 Hours, has postponed its ADAC 24h Nürburgring Series from 2027 to 2028 after four rounds of DMSB conciliation with NLS organiser VLN ended without agreement. The ILN team association had threatened to boycott the new series with more than 70 cars. The NLS has published a 2027 calendar of eight races on seven weekends, without the 24h Qualifiers, for the year the series turns 50 and the circuit 100.

Kruse Auctions hammered the one-off 1953 Cadillac Elegante at $1,275,000 in Auburn, Indiana on 5 September, $1.4 million with the buyer's premium and the highest price ever paid for a Cadillac at auction. Albrecht Goertz refined its shape before Max Hoffman sent him to BMW for the 507, and Carrozzeria Motto in Turin spent 30 months forming the gold-plated aluminium body. The previous Cadillac record was $940,000.