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Ken Okuyama’s Kode89 Supercar Features Three Pedals and a Choice of V12s

By Bill Smith August 17, 2026

Ken Okuyama, the Japanese designer who shaped the Ferrari Enzo during his years at Pininfarina, brought a new open mid-engine car to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on August 16. Named Kode89, it arrived after a quiet run on the Tour d’Elegance a few days earlier, with Okuyama himself at the wheel. The car marks twenty years since he set up his own studio and represents the first time his company has built a complete vehicle around an original chassis rather than adapting platforms from Lotus, Ferrari or Lamborghini.

Gordon Murray S1 Gives You Sixty-Four Reasons to Care About a New V12 Manual

By Jackson Chung August 16, 2026

Gordon Murray Special Vehicles unveiled the S1 at The Quail during Monterey Car Week, and many people believe it’s the most accurate representation of a road-focused supercar since the McLaren F1. They have a point, because the same person, Gordon Murray, created both cars, and the S1 is deeply based in the same idea that made the F1 so popular.

2026 SEALANDER Amphibious Camper Shows What Happens When Land Meets Water Without Compromise

By Bill Smith August 16, 2026

A German-built trailer that rolls behind a compact car by day and floats on calm lakes by night first rolled out more than a decade ago. Today the latest SEALANDER arrives with a fuller list of comfort options than any earlier version, ready for orders with deliveries that began in mid-2025. Daniel Straub’s idea took shape in the early 2010s and reached the market around 2014 as a lightweight hybrid of teardrop trailer and small motorboat.

Ferrari’s CZ26 One-Off Debuts at Monterey Car Week, is Silver Capsule with Red Edges

By Bill Smith August 15, 2026

Ferrari rolled a completely unique coupe onto the Monterey Car Week stage this week and called it CZ26. Built through the Special Projects programme for a single American client, the car started life as an SF90 Stradale and left Maranello two years later looking like something else entirely. Flavio Manzoni’s design team treated the SF90’s hard points as a fixed foundation and then drew a new body around them, one that leans hard into the clean geometry of 1970s Italian industrial objects while still delivering the performance numbers the donor car made famous.

Porsche’s One-Off Flachbau RS Revives the Slant Nose for the Road

By Bill Smith August 15, 2026

A single customer handed Porsche’s Sonderwunsch team a nearly new 2018 911 GT2 RS with the Weissach package and asked for something that had not existed in decades. The result is the Flachbau RS, a factory one-off that stretches the front of a modern turbocharged 911 into the flat, purposeful silhouette once reserved for the most extreme racing cars of the late 1970s.

Bruce McLaren’s Road Car Dream Finally Gets Its Clutch in the Form of the McL 6GT

By Bill Smith August 14, 2026

McLaren just showed a car that feels like it time-traveled from a different era of sports cars while still wearing every modern material trick the company knows. Revealed during Monterey Car Week, the McL 6GT is a low, wide, carbon-fiber machine that will reach customers in 2028 as a limited-production model of roughly 500 examples. Pricing sits in the neighborhood of $1.5 million. What makes people stop and look twice is the third pedal and the tall gear lever rising from the center console.

Lamborghini Revuelto SV Packs 1,050 Horsepower and a Racing Mode That Changes Everything

By Bill Smith August 14, 2026

Lamborghini just raised the ceiling on what a production V12 hybrid can do. Unveiled during Monterey Car Week, the Revuelto SV arrives as the most powerful road car the company has ever built, pairing a familiar 6.5-liter naturally aspirated engine with a more capable electric system and a fixed rear wing that transforms how the car sticks to the road.

Nissan’s Qashqai e-Power Travels from Bogotá’s Heights to the Caribbean Coast on One Tank, Earns Guinness World Record

By Bill Smith August 13, 2026

Nissan’s Qashqai e-Power has earned a Guinness World Records title for the longest journey completed by a non-plug-in extended-range electric vehicle SUV without external charging or refuelling. The compact SUV covered 1,980 kilometers, or about 1,230 miles, across Colombia between July 14 and 17, 2026.

Jaguar Type 01 Interior Runs a Brass Spine Straight Through the Middle

By Bill Smith August 12, 2026

Jaguar has finally opened the cabin of its Type 01 electric grand tourer to public view. Photos released this week show a four-seat layout built around one continuous structure that stretches the full length of the car, turning the interior into four separate spaces rather than the usual shared rows.

A $140,000 Cybertruck Becomes the World’s Largest Remote Control Vehicle in Three Days

By Bill Smith August 12, 2026

Prop Department set a simple goal for a recent build: take a full-size Tesla Cybertruck and turn it into something anyone could drive from a distance. There is no driver in the seat, and there are no complex software overrides of the truck’s own systems. Instead, there are motors, linkages, and painstaking wiring that allow someone outside the vehicle to handle the steering, throttle, transmission, and brakes. The project belonged to WhistlinDiesel, whose videos often end with expensive machinery in pieces, so the finished truck needed to work well enough for a high-speed run that might not go gently.