Genesis brought its Magma GT Concept to life on a 9-kilometer stretch of Italian mountain road last week. The mid-engined grand tourer, first shown as a still object at Le Mans in June, rolled onto the closed Strada Borromea on Mount Mottarone for the Tutto Bene Hillclimb, an invitation-only gathering of 85 cars overlooking Lake Maggiore.
Jensen International Automotive spent years restoring classic Interceptors in Oxfordshire. This week the company showed a completely new car instead. Called the Interceptor GTX, the two-seat coupe is a track-only prototype built to prove an all-new aluminum platform, a Texas-built V8, and the shape of future road cars. Around 80 percent of its exterior is meant to survive when those street versions arrive.
Aston Martin has officially introduced the Valen, a new limited-edition coupe that the company claims is the world’s most powerful front-engine production vehicle. The Valen is based on the current Vanquish chassis and was designed by the Q special vehicles team in collaboration with the Special Vehicle Operations department. It takes the classic long-hood, short-deck layout and makes every essential system work harder. Only 150 will be constructed, with the first vehicles expected to arrive in the second quarter of 2027. The base price is approximately two million dollars before options.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
Acura chose Monterey Car Week to show its next design direction, and the Nexera Vision coupe does the talking without saying a word about production plans. Finished in a deep Matte Titanium that shifts with the light, the two-seater sits low and wide with a long stretch from the front axle to the base of the windshield.
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.