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Peugeot RCZ Vision Concept Restores Coupe Appeal With Ten Minute Solid State Charging

By Bill Smith October 12, 2026

Peugeot brought the RCZ name back to the Paris Motor Show this year with a concept that treats the old coupe formula as something still worth pursuing. The RCZ Vision sits low and wide on the new Stellantis STLA One platform, measuring 4.65 meters long, 1.94 meters wide, and just 1.35 meters tall. Those proportions make it larger than the original car that ran from 2009 to 2015, yet the height stays almost identical. Muscular shoulders, a sculpted flank line, and an active rear spoiler that stays tucked away until the car is moving all contribute to the shape. Forged aluminum wheels measure 21 inches up front and 22 inches at the rear.

Opel STX Concept Reimagines the Classic Estate for Electric Efficiency and Emotional Design

By Bill Smith October 11, 2026

Rüsselsheim has just unveiled a study that treats the long roof and low stance of a traditional estate as something still worth refining. Debuting at the 2026 Paris Motor Show, the Opel STX Concept (Sports Tourer eXperimental) arrives as a fully electric, all-wheel-drive proposition aimed at proving that everyday cargo space and high-speed stability can coexist with a more sculpted, expressive shape. CEO Florian Huettl described it as a look at how exciting and functional the estate of tomorrow can become, and the car carries forward the brand’s history that began with the 1953 Olympia Rekord Caravan.

Prop Department Transforms Ford Festiva Into the Widest Street Legal Car at Ten Feet

By Bill Smith October 11, 2026

Tyler Fever of Prop Department already cut a Ford Festiva into the thinnest street-legal car possible. For the follow-up he reversed the idea and produced a version that measures exactly ten feet from one side to the other. Three more of the little 1988 hatchbacks served as donors, each purchased for roughly $250, so the whole starting collection stayed cheap while still supplying enough parts and metal.

Rivian Halloween Mode Brings Ghostbusters Lights Sounds and Games to Every Vehicle This Fall

By Bill Smith October 9, 2026

Rivian owners woke up to a free software update that turns every R1 and R2 into a rolling Ghostbusters prop. Collaboration with Sony Pictures delivered the package starting October 9 and keeps it active through November 2. Bill Murray appears as Peter Venkman in a short film directed by Gil Kenan, the filmmaker behind the recent Ghostbusters sequels. In the spot Slimer digs through a suburban fridge while lights flicker, then an Ecto-R1 arrives with sirens and Murray in the jumpsuit. The same vehicle, built by Rivian’s Special Projects team, features white 22-inch aero wheels, a red graphic with the No-Ghost logo, restored vintage emergency lights, a roof rack carrying sirens, spotlights, a radar dish and side tanks, plus a compass design visible from above.

How One Collector Commissioned the Only Stretch Limousine From a 1953 Porsche 356

By Bill Smith October 9, 2026

John Dixon already owned a building full of Porsches when he decided his daughter’s wedding needed something more personal than a rented car. Around 2001 he asked Don Boeke, the Dayton customizer known as The Egyptian, to turn a tired 1953 Pre-A 356 into a four-door limousine.

Citroen Ami Outdoor Rolls Back the Roof on a 28 Mile an Hour Electric Quadricycle

By Bill Smith October 9, 2026

Citroen just opened the order books in Germany for the Ami Outdoor, a special edition of the boxy electric two-seater that has been scooting around European side streets since 2020. List price starts at €9,690 including tax, the rough equivalent of $11,000, before delivery and plates. A lease is offered at €65 a month over 36 months after a €1,350 payment up front, with a yearly allowance of 5,000 kilometers. Dutch pricing sits at €9,940, about €1,190 above a plain Ami. Belgium has matched the German figure for private buyers through the end of October. Wider European availability is expected after that first wave. In Germany the car is sold online only.

JAS Tensei Reveal Showcases Original Honda NSX with a Carbon Body and a Louder V6

By Bill Smith October 8, 2026

JAS Motorsport finally showed the finished Tensei on October 8, 2026, after months of drawings that only hinted at the shape. Thirty-five cars are planned, each built near Milan from a first-generation Honda NSX and finished to the buyer’s order. Pininfarina signed the body. The name is Japanese for rebirth, which fits a car that still reads as an NSX from across a lot and then refuses to match the 1990 original once you walk closer.

Batman Returns Hero Batmobile Built From Two Chevy Impalas Heads to Auction

By Bill Smith October 8, 2026

Nineteen feet and eight inches separates the nose of this car from the trailing edge of its rear fins, and almost none of that length came from a single factory chassis. Custom builder Carl Casper and his shop, Hollywood Productions, cut two Chevrolet Impala frames apart and joined them into one long backbone, then wrapped the result in a hand-shaped fiberglass body finished in gloss black. That body still wears the paint it carried when cameras rolled on Tim Burton’s 1992 film Batman Returns. Julien’s Auctions calls this example the number one hero car, screen-matched to most of the driving scenes Michael Keaton shot, and says it has never been offered at auction before.

Jaguar Type 01 Steps Out as a Long Low Electric Grand Tourer From Solihull

By Bill Smith October 6, 2026

Jaguar stopped building cars at the end of 2025 and spent the quiet months turning a polarizing concept into something a customer can order. On Tuesday in New York the covers came off the Type 01, a four-door grand tourer and the first production car on a platform Jaguar built only for itself. The name is a small piece of branding arithmetic. Type points back at older Jaguars, the zero stands for zero tailpipe emissions, and the one marks the first car of the new run.

Hand Crafted Aluminum Gives the Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage Its Auction Debut

By Bill Smith October 5, 2026

Broad Arrow will offer the only Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage this Friday at the Zoute Concours Auction in Belgium, lot 172, with an estimate of $450,000 to $650,000. Dutch studio Niels van Roij Design spent about 15,000 hours on the car, a one-off coachbuilt body on a 2009 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, chassis ZFFFD60B000160781, with 43,802 km recorded at cataloguing. Its public debut came July 8 on the lawn at the Royal Automobile Club, Woodcote Park, while the mechanical parts stayed as Ferrari delivered them.