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2026-08-17

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Releases & Reviews

Gordon Murray S1 Is The Modern McLaren F1 We've Been Waiting For (5 minute read)

Gordon Murray Special Vehicles' new S1 uses a 4.2-liter Cosworth V12 making 681 horsepower (508 kW) and revving to 12,100 rpm, paired to a six-speed manual. The three-seat carbon-tub tourer keeps a central driving position, swaps fixed wings for active rear aero, and is capped at 64 cars.

2027 BMW iX3 Review (22 minute watch)

Throttle House finds BMW's Neue Klasse debut genuinely impressive: 4.5 seconds to 60 mph, 400-kW charging and 434 miles (698 km) of range, with the smoothest regen-to-stop calibration they've tried. Their gripes are all interface — door handles, an over-designed steering wheel and climate controls buried in screens.

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Technology, Market Data & Analysis

$42.9M Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe Is the Most Expensive American Car Ever Sold at Auction (7 minute read)

Chassis CSX2300, one of six Peter Brock-designed coupes, hammered at $39 million and closed at $42.9 million with premium at Gooding Christie's — Ferrari 250 GTO money. The last Daytona to reach auction sold for $7.7 million in 2009, and Monterey's week-long total hit a record $748 million.

Someone Just Spent $40,000,000 On The First Ferrari Luce, Making It Likely The Most Expensive Electric Car Ever Sold (6 minute read)

The catch: all $40 million goes to the Ferrari Foundation, so the buyer books a hefty write-off on a car that starts at $600,000 and carried a $1.1 million estimate. The four-motor Luce makes 1,035 horsepower (772 kW) and covers 330 miles (531 km) on Europe's WLTP cycle.

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Car Culture

Singer/Louis Vuitton Tie-up Produces the Craziest Modified Porsches Yet (4 minute read)

The pair — an '89 coupe and a '91 convertible — got walnut milled from solid blocks, a removable Louis Vuitton dash clock and a gold shifter sprouting from a handbag. The coupe's cobalt tires needed color molded in rather than coated, so Michelin supplied a second set for display.

America’s First Streamliner Train Was An All-Aluminum, Distillate-Burning V12 Beauty That Made Trains Cool Again, Just To Get Junked (21 minute read)

Union Pacific's M-10000 weighed 85 tons against a steam train's 1,000, thanks to an aluminum space frame borrowed from aircraft, and hit 110 mph (177 km/h) on a 12,625 mile (20,314 km) tour. Its 600 horsepower (448 kW) distillate V12 was outdated within years; it was scrapped in 1942.

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Miscellaneous

Cadillac V-One Concept: Cadillac Embraces Its Inner Ferrari (3 minute read)

The track-focused concept pairs a V-8 hybrid making 830 horsepower (619 kW) with pushrod double-wishbone suspension lifted from the V-Series.R endurance racer. Rather than electronics saving the driver, its cockpit is meant to coach one — and Cadillac now calls potential buyers "clients."

Naming a New Vehicle Is Way Harder Than You Think, and Experts Still Aren’t Sure Ford Got It Right (10 minute read)

Ford spent nine months and multiple focus groups landing on Fathom for its $30,000 electric pickup. Two naming professionals give it grudging credit — surviving focus groups intact is rare — but both say it reads more like a software company than a truck.

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Quick Links

We Screened Every Restomod Builder in America We Could Find. Here's the Map. (7 minute read)

A months-long screen of roughly 139 U.S. restomod shops found just 121 actively building complete cars, with 46 percent clustered in California, Florida, Illinois and Texas — and 22 states with none at all.

2027 Lamborghini Revuelto SV Gains More Power and Downforce (5 minute read)

A bigger 7-kWh battery helps push the V-12 hybrid to 1,050 horsepower (783 kW) and 1,051 lb-ft (1,425 Nm), making this the most powerful production Lamborghini ever, with 80 percent more downforce.

2027 Ford Mustang Dark Horse SC Convertible First Look: 795 HP With the Top Down (3 minute read)

The supercharged 5.2-liter Predator V-8 carries over untouched at 795 horsepower (593 kW) and 660 lb-ft (895 Nm), though softer springs and bars trade the coupe's track focus for open-air grand touring.

Why Every New Car Seems To Have A Giant Screen Now (7 minute read)

Automakers didn't just follow smartphone habits — one large display is cheaper to build than dozens of engineered physical controls, and software lets the interface keep changing after the car leaves the factory.

The McLaren McL 6GT Concept Previews a Stick-Shift V-8 Hypercar for 2028 (3 minute read)

McLaren's first manual since the F1 arrives as a production car in 2028, sending V-8 power through a six-speed stick to the rear wheels in a lightweight carbon-fiber body.

The Best of the Worst of the Concours d’LeMons 2026 (2 minute read)

Monterey's anti-concours returns to the Seaside City Hall lawn celebrating good examples of bad cars and bad examples of good ones, the only local venue willing to host the affront.

Still Perfect 2026 Ford Ranger Raptor Review (13 minute watch)

TheStraightPipes finds the 3.0-liter EcoBoost V-6 — 405 horsepower (302 kW) and 430 lb-ft (583 Nm) — still the segment's best answer, with none of the Tacoma's hybrid-four compromises.