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Mille Miglia Day One. 400 Cars. Go.
The 44th Mille Miglia rolls out of Brescia today, threading 400 pre-'57 machines through the Trompia Valley, over Passo del Cavallo, past Lake Garda — your office can wait.
406 cars from 29 nations, first stage Brescia–Padua via Passo del Cavallo (700m+); five days, figure-eight route touching Rome, Rimini, back to Brescia June 13. Andrea Vesco gunning for his seventh consecutive win; 77 entries carry documented original Mille Miglia pedigree. The r/cars thread titled 'biggest rolling museum on earth' has been pinned since Sunday — even the anti-rally crowd admits the pre-war grid is extraordinary this year.
The 1000 Miglia 2026 — the 44th edition of the modern regularity rally — departed Brescia this morning from Viale Venezia, the same ramp it always uses, because some traditions are non-negotiable. The route is a figure-eight that dips through Tuscany, swings down to Rome, then cuts back northeast to Rimini before the final northward push to Brescia on Saturday 13 June. New for 2026: the first day's lunch stop is taken en route, at Lumezzane in the Valle Trompia — which means the convoy tackles the Passo del Cavallo (over 700 metres) before any proper food. Cruel, by design. The grid includes 77 cars with documented race history from the original 1927–1957 editions, which is a remarkable number; those are the cars the curators quietly regard as the real collection. Giancarlo Fisichella drives a 1954 S.I.A.T.A 30 BC; Loris Capirossi takes the wheel of a 1949 Lancia Aprilia. Andrea Vesco, seven-time winner, is the man to beat. For Alpine-region enthusiasts, the route passes through the Dolomite foothills and crosses into Veneto on day one — excellent roadside viewing country before the crowds descend on Tuscany.
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NEW MODEL
Ferrari's 849 Testarossa. Production Starts Now.
Ferrari's SF90 successor finally enters production this month — 1,036 bhp, retro name, flat-crank V8, and enough performance to make a Bugatti Veyron feel leisurely over a standing 200 km/h run.
V8 hybrid system delivers 1,036 bhp (772 kW) and 0–100 km/h in under 2.3 seconds; production mid-2026 as confirmed by Ferrari. Assetto Fiorano pack saves 30 kg and adds twin fins; the Spider variant runs in parallel from launch. Ferrarichat is split on the name — half love the heritage callback, half wish they'd just called it SF90 Speciale and got on with it; the 'it's basically a facelifted SF90' crowd has been thoroughly silenced by the first track reviews.
The Ferrari 849 Testarossa was shown publicly in September 2025 and production has now begun at Maranello — timing it squarely in the middle of the 2026 hypercar summer. At its core it is an evolution of the SF90 Stradale platform, but Ferrari's engineers had five years of SF90 XX learnings to draw from and the result is, by all early accounts, materially better than the car it replaces. The twin-turbo 4.0-litre flat-plane V8 grows to 610 kW standalone; three electric motors — two at the front, one at the rear — lift the system total to 772 kW / 1,036 bhp with full AWD. The 0–200 km/h sprint of 6.35 seconds is genuinely startling: that's roughly a second quicker than the original Bugatti Veyron over the same benchmark. Design draws from the 1970 Ferrari 512S endurance prototype at the rear, styled in-house by Flavio Manzoni's team. UK pricing lands at approximately £408,000, undercutting the Lamborghini Revuelto (£460,000) considerably. The Assetto Fiorano variant adds twin fins evoking the FXX-K lineage and saves 30 kg. For the Alpine-region crowd who'll actually use these cars over a pass, the 25 km pure-EV range means you can silently leave the village at dawn before waking the neighbours — a surprisingly practical argument for a 1,036 bhp hybrid.
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AUCTION
Valhalla Is Delivered. Someone Flipped It Already.
Aston Martin's first mid-engine production car is in customers' hands — and at least one owner already tried to exit via auction, $108k Andromeda Red paint and all.
999-unit Valhalla: 4.0L flat-plane V8 plus three e-motors, 1,064 bhp, 0–62 mph in 2.5 seconds, 217 mph, from ~£830,000 / ~$1.77M; the flipped example carried over $360,000 in options including the $108,000 colour-shift Andromeda Red. First independent road tests from Top Gear and Wallpaper* call it 'an overwhelming triumph' on track; Pistonheads threads note that it slides like a Vantage on corner exit — meant as a compliment — while the r/cars crowd is genuinely surprised Aston pulled it off without a Monocle-adjacent PR disaster.
The Aston Martin Valhalla is a genuinely significant car: it is Gaydon's first series-production mid-engined supercar, and its debut into the PHEV performance arena. The powertrain pairs a flat-plane-crank AMG-sourced 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 (extensively modified, with larger turbos, reinforced pistons and bespoke camshafts) with three electric motors — two at the front axle, one integrated into the eight-speed DCT. Peak system output is 1,064 bhp / 1,100 Nm. The carbon-fibre tub uses RTM for the lower section and pre-preg for the upper, with aluminium subframes front and rear and inboard front suspension, an architecture borrowed wholesale from the track-only Valkyrie. Dry weight comes in at 1,655 kg — heavier than the Ferrari 849 Testarossa's 1,570 kg lightweight spec, but the chassis is described universally as more playful and more forgiving. The £830,000 UK base price sits meaningfully above the Ferrari (£408,000) and Lamborghini Revuelto (£460,000) but well below the £2M McLaren W1. Production is capped at 999 units. The flip attempt — with $108,000 Andromeda Red paint and $360,000 total options — suggests either extreme buyer's remorse or an extremely fast read on the secondary market. Either way, the Valhalla is very much in the world now.
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HYPERCAR
McLaren W1. First Cars. Underground Lairs.
The 399-unit, 1,258 bhp W1 — P1 successor, F1 spiritual heir — is finally reaching owners, completing the most loaded hypercar summer since 2013.
4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 hybrid, 1,258 bhp to rear wheels only, 217 mph, 399 units, ~£2M; Top Gear confirms first cars arriving at owners in June 2026, completing a hypercar summer that also includes the Ferrari 849 Testarossa, Bugatti Tourbillon and Valhalla. McLarenLife forum had been running a betting thread on delivery timing for over a year — the Q1 2026 optimists were closest; the 'zero deliveries in 2025' sceptics had to pay up. General McLaren community reaction: cautious relief that it actually exists.
The McLaren W1 has had a protracted gestation since its reveal, with forum speculation about delivery timings running for the better part of two years on McLarenLife. The car is technically the successor to the P1 and the spiritual descendant of the F1 — an enormous weight of expectation for any engineering team. The powertrain is an entirely new 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 (not the familiar M840T) mated to a hybrid system, routing all 1,258 bhp exclusively to the rear wheels — a deliberate statement about driver engagement in an era when everything else sends power everywhere. Top speed is 217 mph; 0–62 mph takes 2.7 seconds. Production is limited to 399 units at approximately £2 million — placing it above the Valhalla and Revuelto but below the Ferrari F80's £3.15 million and the Bugatti Tourbillon's €4M+. The combination of W1, Ferrari 849 Testarossa production versions, Bugatti Tourbillon, and Valhalla all arriving simultaneously represents the densest concentration of seven-figure hypercars since the LaFerrari / P1 / 918 holy trinity of 2013. For Alpine-region owners: all four cars are on the Stelvio and Susten long before any official press routes, if history is a guide.
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