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A Proper Ferrari Testarossa Finally Appears, If Only on Screen

By Bill Smith August 7, 2026

Photo credit: Khyzyl Saleem
Digital artist Khyzyl Saleem, better known as The Kyza, took Ferrari’s brand-new 849 Testarossa and gave it the 1980s face so many people felt was missing. Ferrari revived the name for the SF90’s replacement, yet the production car’s sharp modern lines left fans wanting stronger ties to the wide, straked icon that defined the decade. Saleem answered that quiet frustration by reskinning nearly every panel while keeping the greenhouse and the rear window that doubles as an engine cover.

A Closer Look Inside the 1996 Popular Mechanics Car Guide CD-ROM Reveals Woodgrain Vipers and Invoice Prices

By Bill Smith August 7, 2026

Clint from LGR Blerbs loaded up a mid-90s Popular Mechanics Car Guide disc on a Windows 3.1 machine and spent over twenty minutes poking around its menus, photos, and videos. The software, released around 1995-1996 for PCs that could handle Video for Windows, promised buyers a way to research new and used vehicles without leaving the house. It delivered pricing data, specifications, magazine articles, still images, and full-motion clips for thousands of cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans. A disc image sits on the Internet Archive now if anyone wants to try it themselves.

Destrier is Bugatti’s One-Meter-Tall Warhorse

By Bill Smith August 6, 2026

Bugatti just handed its most extreme track machine a completely different life. The Destrier takes the carbon-fiber monocoque and full 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16 from the Bolide, removes every wing, every extra vent, and every aerodynamic add-on, then shapes what remains into something built for looking at as much as driving. It stands exactly one meter tall. That is lower than any other road-going Bugatti has ever been.

Allen Millyard’s 500-Horsepower Viper Motorcycle Built in a Garage Just Sold for Over $200,000

By Bill Smith August 5, 2026

Allen Millyard’s one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a bright red motorcycle powered by a full eight-liter Dodge Viper V10, sold at H&H Classics on July 22 for a final price of £149,500. When fees and premiums are included in, the total comes to almost $201,500. The hammer dropped for £130,000, or around $175,000, right in the middle of the pre-sale estimate.

Telo MT1 Electric Pickup Now Claims an 8,000-Pound Tow Rating, Out-Tows Cybertruck and F-150

By Bill Smith August 5, 2026

Compact electric pickups rarely make headlines for brute strength. Yet Telo Trucks just raised the bar on its MT1, a vehicle only 152 inches long, by confirming it can safely pull 8,000 pounds. That figure tops the standard Tesla Cybertruck’s 7,500-pound rating and edges past the base 2026 Ford F-150 equipped with the 2.7-liter EcoBoost engine, which sits between 7,400 and 7,600 pounds depending on axle ratio.

Blackbird Takes Off, Hennessey’s $2.5 Million SR-71-Inspired Manual Hypercar Arrives From Texas

By Bill Smith August 4, 2026

Hennessey Special Vehicles just pulled the covers off its third hypercar, and this one plays by a very different set of rules. Named Blackbird and shaped by the Lockheed SR-71 spy plane that once owned the skies, the new car skips turbos, hybrids, and digital screens in favor of a high-revving American V8 and a gated six-speed stick. Production is capped at 71 examples, each starting at $2.5 million before taxes, with customer deliveries planned for 2029 and 2030 once Venom F5 production winds down.

Novitec Unleashes a Louder, Lower Ferrari 12Cilindri Spider

By Bill Smith August 3, 2026

Ferrari’s 12Cilindri Spider already delivers one of the purest open-air experiences available today. Its long hood, short deck, and 6.5-liter naturally aspirated V12 create a classic front-engine layout that rewards drivers who want wind, noise, and mechanical drama in equal measure. Novitec has now applied its own set of carefully chosen upgrades that sharpen the car’s appearance, improve its stance, and most importantly give the engine a more assertive voice when the roof is stowed.

Fifty Grand and Four Actuators Later, You Get Quite Possibly the Ultimate Full-Motion Home Racing Simulator

By Bill Smith August 3, 2026

Most racing sims start with a chair bolted to a frame and a wheel on a desk. Project Sim Racing’s current build starts somewhere else entirely. A full Sim-Lab P1X Pro aluminum cockpit sits on four Qubic System QS-210 linear actuators. Those actuators deliver pitch, roll, and heave with under eight milliseconds of latency, a 60 mm stroke, and enough force to move more than 250 kilograms of rig, seat, and driver. Add the Qubic belt tensioner that pulls the four-point harness tighter under sustained loads, and the whole assembly begins to behave less like furniture and more like a car.

World’s Only Cizeta-Moroder Prototype Has Sixteen Cylinders, One Name, and a Second Chance at Monterey

By Bill Smith August 2, 2026

Photo credit: Karissa Hosek / RM Sotheby’s
Claudio Zampolli spent years fixing other people’s dreams in Los Angeles before deciding to build his own. A former Lamborghini test driver and development engineer, he wanted something that would make the Countach look ordinary. He found a partner in Giorgio Moroder, the three-time Academy Award-winning composer behind some of the biggest disco and film scores of the era. Together they put their names on a car that carried both: the Cizeta-Moroder V16T. Chassis 001 is the only one that ever wore both names at once. In two weeks it heads to RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction with an estimate between $1.4 million and $1.8 million.

Caribbean Dragon Unleashed, Apollo’s Extreme Track Hypercar Finally Rolls Out

By Bill Smith August 1, 2026

Apollo Automobil rolled its first finished production car onto the Goodwood Festival of Speed grounds in July 2026, and the machine looked ready to rewrite the rules of what a track hypercar can be. Named Caribbean Dragon, this is unit one of just ten Apollo EVOs that will ever leave the German workshop. Twenty years after the original Gumpert Apollo began deliveries, the brand has returned with something sharper, lighter, and more uncompromising than before.