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Rimac will finish Nevera production at 71 cars by the end of 2026, Mate Rimac says in an Instagram video: about 50 Neveras and 20 Nevera R. The original plan was 150 Neveras plus 40 Nevera R. At €2 million and up, the electric hypercar set records but sold at roughly one car every three weeks.

Zlatan Ibrahimović took delivery of his black Ferrari F80 on 3 October, his 45th birthday, a year after revealing the order. The 1,200 hp V6 hybrid is the fastest and most powerful of the Ferraris he has given himself on birthdays since 2019, a run that started with a V12 Monza SP2.

Volvo Cars withdrew its 2026 volume and cash-flow outlook on 2 October after third-quarter sales fell 10.7 percent to 141,609 cars, dragged down by China and the US. Europe held up: electric sales there rose 51 percent to 40,466 cars, and the EX60 ramp-up now shapes what Volvo reports on 23 October.

Jaecoo's 7 is Britain's best-selling new car in September 2026, with 10,813 registrations in a market up 12.1 percent to 350,518. Chinese brands took 23 percent of British sales. Germany tells a different story: KBA data show 322 Jaecoo 7s registered there in its first eight months on sale.

Porsche will build a petrol Macan again from 2028, CEO Michael Leiters confirms, selling it next to the electric version. The old combustion Macan left EU showrooms in 2024 and production ended in July 2026, yet it delivered 38,961 cars in 2025 and outsold the electric Macan in the first quarter of 2026.

Porsche ends its Web3 project and the PIONΞERS CIRCLE built around the 911 NFT collection. The 2,363 tokens stay on the Ethereum blockchain with their owners, but the Discord becomes a read-only archive and the project's X account goes quiet. Porsche halted the original mint in January 2023, far short of its 7,500-token plan.

Germany's grid regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, has adopted its MiSpeL rules for vehicle-to-grid charging after carmakers and utilities protested. Homes without solar panels no longer need a second smart meter, and the buffer factor for solar homes falls from 0.5 to 0.2. Grid and meter operators have until 30 September 2027 to implement it.

Carpoint, a German specialist in classic parts, is turning the Porsche 944 into a shooting brake called the GT-K44. Only ten will be built, each from a customer's 944 S2 or Turbo, and the conversion costs €100,000 before tax. Its design follows a 924 Turbo Kombi that Hanover tuner Artz built in 1981.

BMW M has built its one-millionth car, an M3 in Individual Fire Orange III from Plant Munich. The milestone arrives as the plant prepares to build only electric cars from 2027, including a four-motor electric M3. M and M Performance deliveries reached a record 213,457 in 2025.