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RESTOMOD
Bovensiepen 05 GT: 800hp. Buchloe. Alpina's Heir.
The family that built Alpina just did it again: 800hp, Frank Stephenson body, €199k, built in the same Buchloe shed.
The 05 GT puts 800hp and 1,100Nm through a PHEV M5 Touring platform, with a full Frank Stephenson exterior, Akrapovič titanium exhaust, and Lavalina leather cabin — from €198,900 ex-Buchloe, Q4 2026 deliveries. BimmerPost and bimmertoday.de are cautiously rapturous: the consensus is that the actual talent did walk out of Alpina's building and kept going, and BimmerPost is calling it the B5 Touring nobody knew they still needed.
BMW absorbed the Alpina name in 2022, leaving the Bovensiepen family — founders of the original legend — holding their Buchloe factory and nothing else. Their first car was a limited-run Zagato-bodied M4 coupe, premiered at Villa d'Este 2025 and impressive but niche. The 05 GT is the first product that looks like a genuine production line. Frank Stephenson — Ferrari F430, McLaren P1, original MINI — redesigned the entire exterior to soften the M5 Touring's aggression while reducing visual mass, adding new front and rear bumpers, side skirts, 21-inch forged wheels and a custom roof spoiler. Under the skin: the PHEV V8 is tuned from 727hp to 801hp, with 1,100Nm, 305km/h top speed and 0–100 in under 3.6 seconds. The hand-stitched Lavalina leather steering wheel is sourced from selected farms in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and northern Italy — which is either the most DACH thing ever written in a spec sheet or outstanding marketing. Production is capped at 100 units per year from Buchloe. Starting price of €198,900 includes German VAT, putting it roughly €50,000 above the standard M5 Touring. Revealed at a private event at the Vega Sternwarte above the rooftops of Salzburg — the Bovensiepen family's sense of occasion remains intact.
RESTOMOD · N°01
N°02
EVENT
RB17 Debuts Goodwood July 12. Newey's Road Car.
Adrian Newey's first hypercar gets its world reveal at Goodwood FoS — 50 units, 350km/h+, no apologies.
The RB17 makes its world static debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Friday July 12 in the Cathedral Paddock; only 50 units will be produced, and top speed exceeds 350km/h. Reddit r/supercars and Pistonheads are in rare agreement: the combination of Newey's name, the RB number heritage, and the confirmed 50-unit limit makes this the most credible new hypercar slot of the year.
Red Bull Advanced Technologies has spent years translating F1 engineering into a road-legal hypercar, and Goodwood FoS 2026 — themed around the team's 20th anniversary in F1 — is the moment it goes public. The RB17 takes its name from the Red Bull Racing chassis lineage and was conceived by Group CTO Adrian Newey, the most successful racing car designer in history, before his departure from the team. The project represents RBAT's most ambitious road-car undertaking to date, promising Formula One levels of aerodynamic performance adapted for road and track use combined with what the team describes as indulgent luxury. Fifty examples will be produced; the static reveal on July 12 will be followed by select race cars from nearly every year of Red Bull's F1 history running the Goodwood Hill, with David Coulthard, Christian Horner and Patrick Friesacher confirmed to attend. For the Alpine-region audience, the significance is clear: Newey's fingerprints are on every fast-lap record that matters, and now those fingerprints are on a road car. Whether the price and the platform live up to the mythology will be the conversation at every Pässe gathering this summer.
EVENT · N°02
N°03
TUNER
Manthey's 992.2 Kit. 1,190lb. 6:52. Done.
Manthey's 992.2 GT3 kit hits 1,190lb of downforce with zero drag penalty — and the Nordschleife time proves it.
The 992.2 kit, developed with Porsche Weissach, produces 1,190lb of downforce against the standard car's 849lb while maintaining a 193mph top speed; the Nürburgring benchmark is 6:52.981, 2.76 seconds faster than the 992.1 Manthey-equipped car. Rennlist's consensus: buying a 992.2 GT3 without immediately ordering this kit is a lifestyle choice they are not prepared to defend.
Manthey's performance kits have become the closest thing the GT3 world has to a guaranteed lap-time investment, and the 992.2 version pushes the logic further than ever before. The aero package is the headline: turning vanes now run 59 inches instead of the previous 20, and a completely flat underbody created by a new front luggage compartment floor allows massive downforce gains without aerodynamic drag — a seeming contradiction that the data confirms. The front suspension is stiffened by a further 10 percent versus the 992.1 kit to manage the added front-axle load, while adjustable coilovers allow rebound and compression changes without tools, keeping track-day versatility intact. Stainless steel brake lines and optional forged 20-inch front and 21-inch rear wheels complete the package. Crucially, it is available through Manthey-certified Porsche Centres worldwide, installs without voiding the factory warranty, and pricing — while not officially published — is expected in line with the 992.1 kit. For the Pässe crowd: the combination of a stock-warranty, track-legal kit that's quicker than almost anything short of a Cup car, available from your local Porsche Centre, remains essentially unmatched in the tuner landscape.
TUNER · N°03
N°04
EVENT
Lanzante 95-59 Customer Drive Done. Goodwood Next.
Lanzante's three-seat, McLaren V8 F1 GTR tribute cleared its first customer prototype drive — £1.3M, 59 units, central seat.
The 95-59 XP prototype, running McLaren's 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 at 850hp and 640lb-ft, completed its first customer drive session; priced from £1.3M with only 59 examples to be built, the car's next public appearance is Goodwood FoS. DuPont Registry readers and the r/supercars crowd have noted that at £1.3M, a central-driving-position, non-hybrid, pure-V8 three-seater sitting between the W1 and the T.50 is a gap in the market nobody knew existed — until now.
Lanzante is the Portsmouth-based operation that ran the McLaren F1 GTR to overall victory at Le Mans in 1995 — the win the 95-59 name directly references (1995 win, 59 the car number). The car was designed by Paul Howse, the ex-McLaren designer behind the 720S, P1 and McLaren Sabre, and sits on a re-engineered McLaren platform with a carbon tub that brings kerb weight to around 1,250kg. Unlike every significant hypercar launched in the last five years, there is no hybrid system: just the twin-turbo V8, a 7-speed DCT, and rear-wheel drive. The LM30 package strips a further 20kg. At £1.3 million before options, it sits above the 750S by a factor of four and a half, but below the Speedtail's original £2.1M ask. Only 59 examples will ever exist, echoing the race car's competition number. The first customer prototype drive has now been completed, and the Goodwood FoS appearance in July will be the first time the public gets to see it in the metal — the moment that will determine whether the waiting list fills or the price stalls.
EVENT · N°04
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NEW MODEL
Revuelto SV: 1,963 Units. V12. Last Dance.
Lamborghini put a number on the Revuelto SV production run — 1,963 units — and NYC VIPs already said yes.
The Revuelto SV is limited to 1,963 units globally, paying tribute to the year Ferruccio founded the company; New York VIP clients were first to see it and deposit cheques followed the same evening, per reports. Ferrarichat and Reddit r/supercars agree on one thing: 1,963-unit 'limited' on a halo model is doing a lot of philosophical heavy lifting, but the V12 hybrid at full SVJ-successor specification is still the loudest argument Sant'Agata has left before electrification arrives.
The Revuelto SV is Lamborghini's traditional Superveloce upgrade applied to the first-generation hybrid V12 architecture — a send-off for the combustion-dominant era before the full electrification transition. The 1,001hp hybrid V12 of the standard Revuelto gains additional track-focused aerodynamic and chassis development in SV trim, with the full spec expected at an official reveal later in 2026. The NYC preview followed weeks of anticipation after the Temerario Spyder spy shots and the Revuelto SV teaser cycle — Lamborghini has been running a tight reveal calendar across its two model lines simultaneously. At 1,963 units, the production number is a historical reference but also a commercial reality: the standard Revuelto already sold out, and the SV allocation will fill without difficulty given deposit activity already confirmed from the New York event. For the DACH audience, the relevance is that European allocation will be parcelled through Sant'Agata's network in the coming weeks, and the waiting game starts now. The Temerario Spyder, meanwhile, remains unconfirmed but actively tested — two Lamborghini stories in one fortnight is not a coincidence.
NEW MODEL · N°05
