Hyundai Motor Group has begun testing a pair of unusually thin robots that slide under cars, lift them by the wheels, and park them without any human help. The pilot is underway at Hillstate The Wave City, a large apartment complex in Siheung southwest of Seoul. Two sets of the machines will handle 53 parking spaces on the first basement level while the buildings wait for residents to move in next year.
Twenty-three university students in the Netherlands spent a full year away from their regular classes and delivered something no one else had managed. On a July afternoon in 2026 they rolled out Stella Juva, a two-seat ambulance that generates its own electricity from the sun and uses that power both to move across difficult ground and to run a full set of medical tools. The project comes from Solar Team Eindhoven at Eindhoven University of Technology, the same group that previously built a solar family car, a solar camper, and an off-road solar vehicle that crossed Moroccan desert terrain.
Fresh images of the finished cabin for the JAS Tensei arrived this morning, and they confirm the car is nearly ready for its public debut. JAS Motorsport and Pininfarina released the definitive interior design of their limited restomod based on the first-generation Honda NSX, showing a driver-focused space finished in bold black and red with clear ties to the original car’s simple, purposeful layout.
Graduate students at Clemson University spent nearly two years answering a direct challenge from BMW. Build a working electric vehicle that gathers more energy from the sun than it spends on a normal day of city driving. They delivered Deep Orange 17, also known as Luminetta, a two-seat coupe that does exactly that under the conditions they tested.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.