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🚘 $701K Audi supercar, GM V8 probe, Viper-styled Dodge
PLUS: Senna's NSX, Celica returns, BMW kills buttons
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2026-08-26
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Releases & Reviews
Priced at $701,000 and capped at 499 units, the Nuvolari is the most expensive road car Audi has ever built, nearly double the Lamborghini Temerario it shares bones with. Three axial-flux motors push output to 987 horsepower (736 kW), and carbon body panels replace the Lamborghini's aluminum.
The 6.7-liter Cummins brings 430 horsepower (321 kW) and 1,075 lb-ft (1,458 Nm), but its bulk forces out the factory winch and the Articulink front control arms that define the Power Wagon. At $103,395 as tested, it tows 19,630 pounds (8,892 kg) and steers far too lightly.
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Technology, Market Data & Analysis
The probe targets the 6.2-liter L87 already covered by a recall of 597,630 trucks and SUVs, whose fix was thicker oil for engines that passed inspection. Regulators have logged 499 post-remedy failures; GM itself reports 6,953. The investigation now extends to engines built outside the original recall window.
Noriya Kaihara, Honda's executive vice president, details "Triple Half": halving development time, cost, and resources, with AI-assisted crash simulation cutting testing spend. Honda is studying Chinese factory robotics while keeping that technology out of US plants. Executives insist the target is value, not the cheapest sticker.
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Car Culture
Hagerty's Jason Cammisa traces the LS 400 to Washington strong-arming Japan into capping exports at 1.7 million cars a year. Boxed in on volume, Toyota chased margin instead, staffing Project F1 with 1,400 engineers and 2,300 technicians and moving designers into a Laguna Beach house to study wealthy Americans.
Museums preserve GTIs and Turbos, not the bread-and-butter cars most people drove, which is why a barely driven survivor of Yugoslavia's cheapest export matters. This one carries the range-topping 1.3-liter engine: 67 horsepower (50 kW) hauling 2,000 pounds (906 kg). New, the GV listed at $3,990, roughly $12,000 today.
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Miscellaneous
Stellantis calls it a hyper-muscle car rather than a Viper revival, aimed squarely at the Corvette ZR1 and Mustang GTD. Expect the modified Giorgio platform under the Maserati GranTurismo, a front-engine, rear-transaxle layout, and either a Hurricane straight-six or a Hemi V-8. Estimated price is $100,000 for 2029.
Researchers in JAMA Network Open matched federal fatality records against Spotify charts from 2017 to 2022 and found road deaths rose 15.1 percent on major album release days, when streaming jumped 43 percent. The effect was strongest among younger drivers, and the authors blame the ease of queuing tracks.
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RM Sotheby's has consigned the Formula Red 1991 car Honda gifted Senna, the one whose feedback prompted engineers to stiffen the NSX chassis by 50 percent, with a presale estimate of £500,000–£800,000 ($682K–$1.1M).
The 657 horsepower (490 kW) flagship claims over 310 miles (499 km) of range, and the top Neolun trim hides its B-pillar inside the doors themselves to make the pillarless coach doors crash-legal.
BMW Group Australia's boss says drivers under 45 are multitasking with voice and touch, so the iDrive dial is being deleted model by model, though window switches and a volume knob survive.
Leaked footage of a Ranchero-lookalike sliding through an intersection has fans hoping Rockstar restored the wallowing weight transfer of GTA IV, though the writer argues the difference was always more visual than physical.
Toyota has pointed to a turbocharged 2.0-liter four as the likely powerplant, with MotorTrend expecting hybrid assistance, all-wheel drive, and at least 400 horsepower (298 kW) to clear the GR Corolla.
Polestar says Commerce officials signaled approval for months before denying its exemption from the ban on Chinese connected-car software, the same exemption sister brand Volvo, under identical Geely ownership, received in May.
Autotrader takes the £1.5 million (~$2 million) Czech hypercar to Thruxton, where its Nissan GT-R-derived 3.8-liter V6 and 2,168-pound (982 kg) carbon body deliver race-car directness rather than brute horsepower.
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