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The brand that once wanted to become all-electric is now taking a different road. Under its new Focus 2030 strategy, Lotus will move towards a more flexible multi-powertrain future, combining ICE, PHEV and BEV models instead of forcing every product into a purely electric direction. The headline is impossible to ignore: an all-new Type 135 V8 hybrid supercar is planned for 2028, with more than 1000 PS.

Following the planned sale of its stakes in Bugatti Rimac and the Rimac Group, Porsche has now announced another major step in its strategic realignment: the discontinuation of three subsidiaries, affecting more than 500 employees in total. The companies involved are Cellforce Group GmbH, Porsche eBike Performance GmbH and Cetitec GmbH.

For the first time ever, the complete BMW Art Car Collection will be shown together in one place. The exhibition, titled “BMW ART CARS – 20 ARTISTS, 50 YEARS OF INNOVATION. REUNITED AT BMW WELT”, will run at BMW Welt in Munich from 29 July to 31 August 2026, with the opening ceremony taking place on 28 July. That means all 20 BMW Art Cars, from Alexander Calder’s 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL to Julie Mehretu’s 2024 BMW M Hybrid V8, will finally stand together under one roof.

For years, the Q7 carried Audi’s three-row SUV ambitions, while Mercedes-Benz had the GLS and BMW had the X7. But now Ingolstadt is preparing something larger, more luxurious and more clearly aimed at the full-size premium SUV segment: the new Audi Q9. Audi has not shown the full exterior yet, but it has opened the doors to the interior. And honestly, that tells us almost everything about what this car is supposed to be.

BMW M Motorsport has revealed the final race livery of the BMW M3 Touring 24H, the wild estate-shaped endurance car that will compete at the 2026 Nürburgring 24 Hours. What began as an April Fools’ joke in 2025 is now a real, GT3-based race car with 590 hp, 700 Nm, a sequential gearbox and one of the most unexpected silhouettes on the grid.

The upcoming Mercedes-AMG CLE 63 Mythos has been teased and spotted testing, and even under camouflage it already looks like the spiritual successor to the CLK 63 AMG Black Series. Big wing, wide stance, aggressive aero, four squared-off exhaust tips and the kind of visual attitude AMG coupes used to carry so naturally. More of this, please.

A few become famous because people can recognise them from the other side of a circuit. The Manthey “Grello” Porsche is one of those cars. For the 2026 Nürburgring 24 Hours, Manthey is celebrating two milestones at once: 30 years of Manthey and 10 years of the Grello livery. To mark the occasion, the team will race a special one-off anniversary design that connects the yellow-and-green icon of today with the team’s earlier “

Lexus has revealed the TZ, an all-new fully electric six-seat SUV designed to bring a different kind of luxury to the large EV segment. Lexus is leaning into something it understands very well: quietness, refinement, comfort and a very deliberate sense of calm. The brand calls the concept “Driving Lounge”, and honestly, that might be the most Lexus way possible to approach an electric three-row SUV. The new TZ is scheduled for launch in Europe in 2027.

In 2025, fully electric cars represented 95.9% of all new-car registrations in Norway, up from 88.9% in 2024. In December, the figure climbed even higher, to almost 98%. That means the petrol and diesel car have not just lost market share in Norway. They have effectively become exceptions. For the rest of Europe, where EV adoption is still uneven and often politically contested, Norway now looks less like an early adopter and more like a completed case study.

Revealed at Top Marques Monaco, the new ABT Urus SE takes the electrified Lamborghini SUV formula and adds more power, more carbon, more sound and more visual aggression. The result is not just a tuned Urus. It is ABT’s interpretation of what a hybrid performance SUV should look and feel like when restraint is no longer part of the brief. The numbers tell the first part of the story: 910 PS, 669 kW and 1,100 Nm of torque.

The market has shifted and Van Mossel has moved faster than many expected. The Dutch automotive group, active in Belgium since 2018, has now become the country’s largest car dealer group by new-car registrations. That is not just a commercial milestone. It says something much bigger about where car retail in Belgium and Europe is heading.

BMW M is giving its inline-six engines a very interesting future. From mid-2026, the BMW M2, BMW M3 and BMW M4 will receive a new engine technology called BMW M Ignite. It is a patented pre-chamber ignition system designed to improve efficiency under high load, especially during circuit driving, while also helping BMW M meet the upcoming Euro 7 emissions requirements.