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BYD’s Yangwang Altior Brings Coach Doors Gold Accents and Extreme Range to Electric Luxury

By Bill Smith November 8, 2026

BYD opened pre-orders for its Yangwang Altior after a global debut in Abu Dhabi, placing the four-seat electric sedan in the same conversation as long-established ultra-luxury models from Rolls-Royce. Measuring 5,600 millimeters in length with a 3,500-millimeter wheelbase, the car stretches farther than a standard Rolls-Royce Ghost and offers 1,209 millimeters of rear legroom along with a 532-liter boot. Coach doors open roughly 80 degrees up front and nearly 90 degrees at the rear, with umbrella storage built into the door panels for a more deliberate entrance.

S Klub Builds ‘Game Over’ McLaren 750S in Full Mercedes CLK GTR Form

By Bill Smith November 7, 2026

Photo credit: S Klub LA
Southern California shop S Klub LA took a brand-new McLaren 750S and replaced nearly every exterior panel so the finished car reads as a late-1990s Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR when seen from across a parking lot. The project, called Game Over and built with Slang500, sat on the Toyo Tires Treadpass at SEMA 2026 in Las Vegas, where rapper 2 Chainz stopped by for a closer look. S Klub has spent years building one-off Mercedes-inspired cars, including a radical open-top version of the SLR McLaren and several widebody 300 SL tributes, so the decision to stretch a modern British supercar into the silhouette of the German GT1 racer follows a clear pattern.

Tesla Cybertruck Production Winds Down Next Year Freeing Space for Cybercab Robotaxis

By Bill Smith November 7, 2026

Production of Tesla’s stainless steel pickup will wind down at the company’s Texas factory around the middle of 2027 so the plant can build more Cybercabs, Elon Musk said in a post on X. First customer Cybertruck deliveries began in late 2023 after delays from the 2019 unveiling. Musk later clarified that assembly continues for another eight or nine months before the focus shifts fully to scaling the robotaxi. The Texas site is the only factory equipped for the truck’s specialized parts, so relocating the line looks unlikely.

Ferrari 499P Modificata Auction Brings Unrestricted Le Mans Power to a Select Few

By Bill Smith November 6, 2026

Ferrari built the 499P Modificata so a handful of its best customers could drive something that shares almost every important piece of engineering with the prototype that took overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Chassis number 21, finished in its original red livery, has never turned a wheel beyond the factory shakedown runs that confirmed everything worked. Gooding Christie’s is offering it on November 8 in Geneva with an estimate in excess of CHF 7,500,000 ($9.2 million), the first time any Modificata has reached a public sale.

Ford Bronco Frostwarden Hits SEMA with 1200 Horsepower Arctic Rescue Power

By Bill Smith November 5, 2026

Ford rolled a single Bronco into SEMA this week built specifically for the kind of winter work most vehicles never attempt. Named Frostwarden, the one-off sits on portal gear lifts from 74Weld, runs 42-inch BFGoodrich tires on custom 18-inch Weld bead-lock wheels, and carries a supercharged 7.3-liter V8 that produces more than 1,200 horsepower and more than 1,000 lb-ft of torque on race fuel. The whole package was assembled by Kincer Chassis in Tennessee as a demonstration of what Ford Racing Parts and a short list of partners can do when the brief is simply to go as far as the platform allows.

Kia Sculpts Full-Size EV4 GT From Tennis Court Clay for Rafael Nadal

By Bill Smith November 5, 2026

Designers mixed industrial modeling clay with earth taken from the courts where Rafael Nadal won his titles and shaped the blend into a full-size Kia EV4 GT that now sits at his tennis academy in Mallorca. Sources for the court clay include the surfaces in Monte Carlo, Rome, Madrid and Roland-Garros in Paris, places that produced 63 of his singles titles and the record 14 French Open victories that earned him the King of Clay name.

Toyota’s Snowhunter Concept Family Brings Tracked Winter Capability to Five Models at SEMA

By Bill Smith October 30, 2026

Toyota’s CALTY design team in Ann Arbor built a family of five concepts that turn ordinary body-on-frame trucks and SUVs into machines meant for deep, unplowed snow. The Tundra, Tacoma, 4Runner, Land Cruiser, and Sequoia each lose their tires and gain large white powder-coated track assemblies that bolt onto the existing hubs.

Honda Passport Baja Spec Hybrid Trophy Truck Targets Overall Baja 1000 Victory with 1,300+ HP

By Jackson Chung October 30, 2026

Honda Racing Corporation USA unveiled its Passport Baja Spec Trophy Truck at a private downtown Los Angeles event, with the first public appearance scheduled for SEMA 2026 in Las Vegas from November 3 to 6 in the HRC booth. This purpose-built racer becomes the first hybrid-powered vehicle entered in the SCORE World Desert Championship top Trophy Truck class. A mid-mounted 2.4-liter twin-turbocharged all-aluminum V6 sits behind the cab and works with an 800-volt hybrid system to produce more than 1,300 horsepower.

Toyota Crown Signia GT-S Concept Lowers Into a Canyon Ready Grand Tourer for SEMA

By Bill Smith October 29, 2026

Toyota Motorsports Garage has prepared a Crown Signia GT-S Concept for the SEMA show in Las Vegas, taking the practical hybrid crossover and giving it the posture of something meant for winding roads while keeping space for people and gear.

Aston Martin Valhalla Spider Claims 217 MPH as Open-Top Hypercar

By Jackson Chung October 29, 2026

Aston Martin Valhalla Spider Open-Top Hypercar
Aston Martin revealed the Valhalla Spider as the open-top version of its mid-engined hybrid hypercar, capable of the same 217 mph top speed with the roof removed that the coupe achieves with the roof fixed in place. That figure makes it the fastest open-cockpit car the company has ever built, and the engineering team preserved nearly all of the coupe’s structural stiffness and aerodynamic balance while adding a removable roof system. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2027 after a public debut at the Concours at Wynn in Las Vegas.