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TUNER
G-Power's M3 Touring Hits 330 km/h. Estate.
700 hp from a six-cylinder estate wagon is one of those tuner brochure facts that never stops being funny — and G-Power's G3M Bi-Turbo Touring is very much real.
The G3M Bi-Turbo Touring extracts 700 metric hp and 850 Nm from the S58 inline-six via upgraded turbos, ECU remap, and a new intake — the entry package costs €15,852 and the full-fat version runs to €47,600 on top of M3 Touring sticker. BimmerPost reacted with the usual split: half the thread is writing cheques, the other half is asking why you wouldn't just buy a used 911 Turbo S.
G-Power has been doing this to BMWs since before most of its current customers were born, and the G3M Bi-Turbo Touring is a textbook example of why the Munich tuner still matters: it takes the G81 M3 Touring — already a borderline absurd machine at 510 PS — and turns it into something that will genuinely embarrass cars costing three times as much on an unrestricted Autobahn. The base-tier Bi-Turbo package (€15,852) bumps output to 700 metric hp and 850 Nm, while the range-topping 800 PS version — limited to just 25 units globally, no USA allocation — adds bigger turbos, a full DEEPTONE stainless exhaust, and a top speed of 330 km/h once the limiter is deleted. Visual changes include a carbon Venturi hood in RS spec, carbon kidneys, front splitter, side skirts, and G-Power's Hurricane RR forged wheels. Pricing for the full 800 PS build lands at approximately €154,800 all-in, which makes it pricier than the M3 CS it's based on and puts it squarely in the conversation with the Manhart MH5 700 wagon from last month. G-Power pointedly chose not to release 0–100 times, which tells you everything and nothing. For Alpine-region readers, the combination of 850 Nm and rear-biased xDrive torque split means the Susten and the Furkapass are significantly more interesting on the way down. The BimmerPost crowd is warming to it — sceptics of the aero kit are notably quiet once the dyno numbers surface.
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N°02
AUCTION
Villa d'Este 2026: BMW 328 Wins. Daytona SP3 Sells.
A 1937 BMW 328 took Best of Show at Lake Como, and Broad Arrow shifted €40.8M in two days — the Daytona SP3 doing most of the heavy lifting at €6.25M.
The 2026 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este ran May 15–17 across eight classes; the 1937 BMW 328 'Bügelfalte' claimed the Trofeo BMW Group Best of Show, a DeTomaso Mangusta won the unrestored class, and a Ferrari 212 Coupé Speciale took the 1950s category. Broad Arrow's concurrent auction logged €40.8M in total sales at 87% sell-through, led by a Ferrari Daytona SP3 Icona at €6.25M; a 1968 Ferrari 330 GTS beat its high estimate at €1.92M, while a Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4 dipped just below its low estimate.
The 2026 edition ran under the banner 'Future Needs Heritage' and fielded 54 cars from 13 countries across eight competition classes ranging from coachbuilt pre-war masterpieces to late-night concours darlings. The BMW 328 win is fitting given BMW Group Classic's long-standing partnership with the event — though the Jury selecting an in-house marque car as Best of Show will generate the usual sotto-voce grumbling from the Ferrari and Alfa loyalists on the shores. The DeTomaso Mangusta in the unrestored class is the result of the concours that most resonates with the Haus of Apex audience: untouched, honest, and probably the most useful data point for anyone considering whether to restore their own patina-correct Italian classic. The Broad Arrow sale told a nuanced market story: demand for modern limited-run Ferraris (Daytona SP3, Monza SP2) remains muscular, while the Countach LPI 800-4 landing below its low estimate suggests the post-COVID hyper-premium for brand-new hypercars is still unwinding. The Villa d'Este concorso format — small field, curated classes, no public-day noise — remains the gold standard for what a concours can be when it decides quality beats footfall. The 2027 edition date has not yet been announced.
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N°03
BOUTIQUE
Rolls Ghost TT. One-Off. Isle of Man. 120 Years.
A one-off Black Badge Ghost landed on the Isle of Man to celebrate C.S. Rolls winning the 1906 Tourist Trophy — the detail work is quietly extraordinary.
Finished in Dark Emerald referencing the original Light 20HP's green bodywork, with a hand-painted race number '4' in Arctic White and engraved vent details including the winning car's chassis number, registration, and GPS coordinates of the 1906 finish line. No technical changes to the standard Black Badge Ghost — but this is clearly not the point.
The 1906 Tourist Trophy was a car race before it became the domain of bikes, and Charles Stewart Rolls won it by ten minutes on a course he completed in four hours, six minutes and 0.06 seconds — with one pint of fuel to spare. Rolls-Royce's Bespoke team took that level of precision seriously: the rear Waterfall seat carries an embroidered outline of the Isle of Man Short Highroads Course, and the circular eyeball vents are engraved with the race date, chassis number 26350B, registration AX157, and start-line coordinates. The exterior coachline incorporates the hand-painted number 4, Rolls' starting position. Interior materials are Black leather, Black Badge Technical Fibre, and Tan accents throughout. This is a single commissioned car, delivered on the island where the race was held — there is no production run, no limited edition, no order book. Rolls-Royce's Private Office commissions like this one rarely fail to generate collector interest years later, particularly when the historical hook is as specific as this one. The Magneto and Classic Car Clubs UK communities have called it one of the more interesting Bespoke commissions of the year.
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SUPERCAR
Manual Supercars Win. British Iron Bleeds.
H1 2026 classic market data is in: manual-gated supercars are the hottest sub-category, while British classics hit an eight-year low.
Hagerty's Best of British index is at its lowest since 2018; nearly 80% of UK classic values fell or held flat in the twelve months to December 2025. The outlier: a 2002 Lamborghini Murciélago manual hit £264,500 at Bonhams Goodwood, with manual Murciélagos running 18% above high estimate — manual-gated supercars are the single strongest sub-category in the modern space right now.
The H1 2026 UK classic car market picture, drawn from Bonhams, Iconic Auctioneers, H&H Classics and the Hagerty Price Guide through May 2026, tells a story of bifurcation. Post-2000 modern classics from Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari posted year-on-year growth; almost everything else softened. The Jaguar story is particularly brutal — down 21% in 2025, in large part due to a £3.6M reduction in the XKSS mean value. Pre-war British material has seen the sharpest retreats of all. But the manual-gated supercar sub-category is behaving like a different asset class entirely: the 1988 Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV made £512,500, a Ferrari 488 Pista Piloti went pre-sale at £489,166, and the Murciélago manual consistently beats estimate. For Pässe-driving readers, the practical read is this: if you ever wanted a manual-gated Italian V12 at a moment when the market is actually paying attention to them rather than letting them drift, the window is right now. The 911 996 C2 3.4 holds Hagerty's highest collectability score on the 2026 Bull Market List — positioned, not yet explosive.
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NEW MODEL
Europe's First Custom F80. It Flaunts Its Colour.
The first tailor-made Ferrari F80 delivered to a European customer just surfaced — bespoke spec, and the F80 production drip-feed is very much the current flex.
Ferrari's F80 programme is rolling out its 799-unit allocation with measured deliberation; all units are pre-sold at ~€3.6M each, with deliveries paced to run through 2027. The 1,200 hp V6-hybrid hypercar combines a 3.0L twin-turbo V6 (900 hp) with an F1-derived MGU-K and electric front axle, hitting 0-100 km/h in 2.15 seconds. Ferrarichat regulars are tracking every delivery sighting obsessively — custom colour specs are the current status signal.
Ferrari's F80 is the LaFerrari successor in all but name, and Maranello has managed its rollout with the kind of theatrical patience that keeps the internet permanently warm. The first European delivery went to a UK customer in late December 2025 — finished in Rosso Taormina with carbon everywhere — but the programme's real narrative arc for 2026 is the emergence of bespoke-specification cars, each one differentiated by its owner's Tailor Made choices. The powertrain remains the most technically dense thing Ferrari has put on public roads: the 3.0L twin-turbo V6 produces 900 hp on its own, with three electric motors adding approximately 300 hp, and the front axle does torque vectoring duty via two of those motors. Aerodynamics pull from the 499P Le Mans programme. With 799 units and a ~2027 completion date for the full run, each new delivery sighting functions as a collector event in itself. The car's €3.6M price point and the pattern of bespoke specs emerging from the production line suggest Ferrari's Tailor Made department is doing brisk business at the very top of the allocation list.
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