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987hp. V8 hybrid. Carbon body. 499 units. €600,000.

Audi said there would be no successor to the R8. Then they built the Nuvolari.

Named after the greatest racing driver Ferdinand Porsche ever watched, it is the most powerful Audi ever made. And it is absolutely not a successor to the R8. Audi have been very clear about this.

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Audi named its most powerful car ever after the greatest racing driver who ever lived. They were not wrong to. - RevMag The Audi Nuvolari is official: 987hp from a twin-turbo V8 and three electric motors, 499 units, €600,000, 0-62mph in 2.6 seconds and a top speed above 217mph.

Ferrari's first electric car has arrived.

1,035hp. Jony Ive interior. Rear-hinged doors. €550,000.

Also: it weighs more than a Rolls-Royce Phantom.

Ferrari has thoughts on this. So do we. Full story at the link. 🔗

Meet the Ferrari Luce: 1,035hp, Jony Ive inside, and the weight of a Rolls-Royce Phantom. - RevMag Ferrari unveiled the Luce in Rome on 25 May 2026 — its first fully electric car. 1,035hp, four motors, 122kWh battery, Jony Ive interior, rear-hinged doors, 2,260kg and a starting price of €550,000. Ferrari will never be the same again. Whether that is wonderful or terrible depends entirely on w...

Mercedes-AMG has killed the V8.

In its place: three electric motors, 1,153 horsepower, a 0-60 time of two seconds, and a computer programme that plays fake V8 sounds through the speakers — complete with simulated gear changes that jolt the car — because AMG apparently decided that admitting what the car actually is would be too much for everyone to handle.

The exhaust outlets are also fake. Purely decorative. Nothing exits through them.

The engineering is genuinely extraordinary. The denial is fascinating. We did not hold back.

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Mercedes killed the V8. Then programmed a computer to pretend it hadn't. - RevMag The new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door is electric, makes 1,153hp, does 0-60 in 2 seconds, and plays fake V8 sounds through the speakers with simulated gear changes. It is extraordinarily fast and profoundly confused about what it wants to be. Here is our honest take.

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This week: a Dacia Logan made Verstappen flash his lights at the Nurburgring, Brabus built a 1,000hp V12 tribute to its founder, and we sat down in Monaco with Mikkel Jensen — the man McLaren have trusted to bring them back to Le Mans for the first time since 1995. His answer to how it feels to carry thirty years of history was worth the trip.

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Max Verstappen came to the Nurburgring 24 Hours with a GT3 car, four world championships and the biggest crowd the Green Hell had seen in years.

The most talked-about car of the entire weekend was a Dacia Logan.

No.300. Ollis Garage Racing. Built from a bare shell with fan donations after the previous one was destroyed in a crash. 280 horsepower. A Renault Megane engine. Four ordinary blokes who simply refused to quit.

Verstappen had to flash his lights at it to get past. The race's official Instagram posted more content about it than any other car. When it crashed with three hours to go, people all over the world felt genuinely sad about a Dacia.

It got fixed. It went back out. It finished 107th.

Verstappen didn't finish at all.

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Max Verstappen came to the Nurburgring. A Dacia Logan stole his thunder. - RevMag A Dacia Logan finished the 2026 Nurburgring 24 Hours 107th overall, made Max Verstappen flash his lights, survived a crash with three hours to go, and became the most talked-about car in the race. It had 280hp. The winning car had considerably more. Nobody cared.

Right. BMW spent considerable time and money building what is genuinely the most beautiful concept car revealed this year. They drove it to Lake Como. They showed it to everyone. Everyone loved it.

Then they said it wasn't going into production.

The car is called the Vision BMW Alpina. It is a fastback grand tourer that references the legendary B7 Coupé, looks even better in person than the photos suggest, and represents exactly what Alpina should be under BMW's new ownership.

You cannot have one. Nobody can. There is one. BMW has it.

The actual production car comes in 2027 and will be based on the 7 Series. We will reserve judgment until we see it. But it has a very high bar to clear now.

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BMW built the most beautiful concept car of 2026 and then decided not to sell it. Typical. - RevMag The Vision BMW Alpina has been revealed at Villa d'Este 2026 as a one-of-one grand tourer concept. It is the most beautiful thing BMW has shown in years. It is not going into production. Here is why that is frustrating and why the 2027 production model is still worth getting excited about.

Kimera K39. Koenigsegg V8. Lancia soul. Manual gearbox. Rear-wheel drive. 986hp. And a Pikes Peak version for ten people who have clearly never been frightened of anything in their lives.

This is the most exciting hypercar of 2026. It doesn't even have a working prototype yet. 20 are already sold.

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The Kimera K39 has a Koenigsegg V8, Lancia DNA and a clutch pedal. Good grief. - RevMag The Kimera K39 has been revealed at Villa d'Este with a Koenigsegg twin-turbo V8 producing 986hp, a seven-speed manual gearbox, carbon monocoque and rear-wheel drive only. It costs around £2 million, fewer than 100 will be built, and 20 are already sold. This is the most exciting new hypercar of 20...

Brabus just revealed a 1,000hp V12 coupe with a carbon fibre body, 77 units and a price of €1 million. It is called the Bodo. It is entirely black. It has no hybrid. It does 224mph.

Oh, and it was built as a tribute to the late founder of Brabus, Bodo Buschmann, who spent decades dreaming about building his own car and never got to see it happen.

His son built it anyway. We think that's rather special.

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Meet the Brabus Bodo: a 224mph V12 tribute to the man who started it all - RevMag The Brabus Bodo is a coachbuilt V12 hyper-GT with 1,000hp, 77 units and a price of €1 million. It is based on the Aston Martin Vanquish, built entirely in black carbon fibre, and named after the late Brabus founder Bodo Buschmann. This is the most important car Brabus has ever made.