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Kimera Automobili, the Piedmont workshop known for its Lancia 037 restomods, showed the running K-39 Stradale at Monterey in August. It pairs a Koenigsegg-built 5.0-litre twin-turbo V8 with a seven-speed manual and rear-wheel drive.

The engine is a detuned Jesko unit running smaller Agera-spec turbos on 95 octane pump fuel, making 986 bhp at 7,350 rpm and 1,200 Nm at 5,500 rpm, with an 8,250 rpm limiter. This is the first time Koenigsegg has supplied its V8 to another manufacturer. Dallara consults on aero, the tub and body are carbon, the suspension is inboard pushrod at both ends, and the standard brakes are steel because Kimera argues they give better feedback than carbon-ceramics. Target kerb weight is around 1,100 kg; over 20 cars were allocated before the public reveal and first deliveries are due in early 2027.

A manual, rear-drive outlier in an era of 2,000 hp hybrid hypercars.

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A one-off Aston Martin Lagonda shooting brake, built in Switzerland by Roos Engineering on a rare Series 3 sedan, goes to Broad Arrow's Zurich sale in November. The estimate is CHF 250,000 to 350,000.

The donor was already scarce: one of only 76 fuel-injected Series 3 Lagondas, first registered in Switzerland in March 1987, with a 5.3-litre V8 making 300 hp. Roos Engineering, the Aston Martin heritage specialist based near Bern, kept the sedan's overall length so the car would not need fresh homologation, extending William Towns' wedge roofline into a Kamm tail with bespoke glass and extra rear lights in the bumper. Underneath, the V8 and automatic gearbox were stripped and rebuilt, the ECU recalibrated, the notoriously fragile electrics fully renewed and bespoke rear dampers developed for heavier loads. Commissioned in 1996 and delivered in 2000, it took roughly four years and was built with Aston Martin's approval and factory parts.

Swiss coachbuilding, and modest money next to the 1.765 million dollar DB5 Shooting Brake.

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Capricorn, the German engineering group that builds carbon and metal parts for much of the Formula 1 grid, has become a car maker. Its 01 pairs a heavily reworked 5.2-litre supercharged V8 making 887 hp with a five-speed dog-leg manual and rear-wheel drive. Nineteen cars will be built, at roughly 2.95 million euros each.

Kerb weight sits under 1,200 kg thanks to a full carbon structure and body, which puts power-to-weight north of 740 hp per tonne. Capricorn quotes under three seconds to 100 km/h and a 359 km/h top speed. The bodywork is by Zagato, the Milanese carrozzeria's first ground-up hypercar, and every car is hand-built in Germany at Capricorn's own Nurburgring campus. There is no dual-clutch option and no hybrid assistance.

A manual, sub-1,200 kg hypercar built next door to the Nordschleife is about as pointed a rejection of the current playbook as this industry offers.

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Artcurial Motorcars will sell the Thierry Dehaeck collection in Paris in February 2027 under the title In Praise of Excellence. Sixty cars assembled over four decades carry an estimate of 15 to 25 million euros, alongside more than 100 automobilia lots and a working Belgian carousel from 1953.

Dehaeck built the collection privately over more than forty years, and Artcurial is calling it one of the most significant single-owner groupings ever to reach the European market. It anchors the house's Paris Car Week sale on 5 February 2027, the slot Artcurial has used for its biggest results since the Baillon barn find. Catalogues of this size are rare in Europe, where large collections usually get broken up and fed into several sales across a few seasons.

Whole-collection sales set benchmarks because nothing is cherry-picked. Sixty cars crossing the block in one afternoon will say more about the European market than a year of individual results.

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Bugatti's restoration division La Maison Pur Sang has revealed a one-of-one Veyron, built with its owner to mark 20 years of the 16.4. The 8.0-litre quad-turbo W16 is untouched at 1,001 PS and 407 km/h.

The car wears two colours never previously offered on a Veyron: Rouge Rembrandt, developed for the V16 Tourbillon, over the Chiron's Petrol Blue, with a Magnolia leather cabin. The real engineering move is a reworked Machiavelli wheel grown to 20 inches front and 21 rear, which lets a 2005-era Veyron run modern Chiron tyre sizes, a genuine fix for a hypercar whose original rubber is running out. Inside there is hand-worked Mocassin stitching, a 20-years emblem between the seats and a Cote de Geneve finish on the console. Bugatti also opened a Veyron configurator, a signal that Molsheim now treats the Veyron as a restoration business rather than a used car.

Unveiled 20 August 2026 at Pebble Beach; La Maison Pur Sang has run since 2020.

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The Ferrari 456, the 5.5-litre V12 2+2 with a gated six-speed manual, is finally being repriced. Manual cars now routinely clear $100,000 at US auction and the model record stands at $230,000.

Magneto's 24 August analysis puts the median of 33 completed US public sales since February 2025 at $65,000, but the spread is where the story sits. A 15,000-mile manual 1995 456 GT made $145,000 on Bring a Trailer on 14 August 2026, while the record $230,000 car sold in September 2025. Automatics are firming too: one 2001 456M GTA made $74,800 at Mecum Monterey after the same chassis sold for $42,560 twelve months earlier, up 75.8 percent. Europe is following, with a 1994 456 GT at 83,860 euro through Aguttes, though the UK stays the softest market at roughly 40,000 to 60,000 pounds. Specialists warn condition dominates: interior switchgear is near-unobtainable and 30-year-old cars are showing corrosion at the windscreen drains and sills.

Of 30 European sales in the window, 16 were manuals.

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Ferrari showed the CZ26 at Pebble Beach on 14 August: a single coachbuilt berlinetta on SF90 Stradale bones. The 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 plus three e-motors make 1,000 cv and 800 Nm, good for 0-100 km/h in 2.5 seconds and 328 km/h.

The CZ26 came out of Ferrari's Special Projects programme, a two-year commission from a US client executed by the Ferrari Design Studio under Chief Design Officer Flavio Manzoni. Everything above the SF90 platform is new: a two-box silhouette with four muscular wheel-arch volumes, a full-width functional front grille housing ultra-slim LED units and brake ducts, and a truncated tail with cantilevered lights. Ferrari cites 1970s Italian industrial design as the reference. Mechanically it stays SF90, with a 7.9 kWh battery worth 25 km of electric range and an eight-speed dual-clutch. The body wears Argento Veloce with Rosso Lampante detailing, shot-peened gloss-black wheels and titanium tailpipes.

You will never meet one on a pass. But the same hardware under an SF90 you might pass on the Stelvio can carry a completely different body if you ask Maranello nicely enough.

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RM Sotheby's sold the 1996 McLaren F1 GTR chassis 10R for USD 34,655,000 at Monterey, 13 to 15 August 2026. It is the most expensive McLaren ever sold at public auction. Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason owned and drove the car for 25 years.

Chassis 10R left Woking in December 1995 as the first of only nine F1 GTRs built to 1996 specification, the most developed of all GTR variants and 38 kilograms lighter than the 1995 Le Mans winner. It is one of just two short-tail GTR prototypes retained by the factory. In April 1996 it ran Le Mans pre-qualifying with David Brabham for Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing, finishing 8th in class. It is the only F1 GTR to carry a bespoke factory livery, the scarlet and yellow pop-art scheme that made it the most recognisable of all 106 McLaren F1s. Mason bought it directly from McLaren in 1999 after a factory road conversion and registered it K40 MCL, before selling privately in 2024.

The result confirms that analogue 1990s race-bred cars now trade in territory once reserved for pre-war and 1960s Ferrari blue chips.

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Croatian coachbuilder Tedson has revealed the analog cockpit of its Etna, a Lamborghini Gallardo restomod with a 600-plus hp, 10,000 rpm V10. Price: from roughly 720,000 euros before you supply the donor car, limited to 77 units.

The Etna's cabin rejects the touchscreen era: an open-gated manual shifter sits on a continuous matte carbon spine, flanked by weighted billet toggle switches, CNC-machined aluminium turbine vents and a MoTeC motorsport display. Tedson converts the Gallardo's E-Gear automated gearbox to a proper three-pedal gated shift, while a full carbon body cuts around 200 kg and JRZ supplies bespoke suspension. The 5.0-litre naturally aspirated V10 is pushed past 600 hp and spins beyond 10,000 rpm through a custom titanium exhaust. The first nine Launch Edition cars are due in autumn 2026, with each commission taking about a year.

While Singer defined the 911 restomod, the Gallardo is the next blue-chip donor platform - and Tedson's hard analog line is exactly the driver-first formula Alpine-pass collectors pay for.

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Broad Arrow consigns the one-off Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage by Niels van Roij Design for its Zoute sale on 9 October 2026, estimated at 450,000-650,000 euros. The coachbuilt tribute took 15,000 hours.

The Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage is built on a 2009 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano donor, keeping the naturally aspirated V12 while nearly every body panel was reworked by hand - including 3D-printed carbon fibre nose sections, butterfly doors and a bespoke double-barrel exhaust. It pays tribute to the 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Shooting Brake originally commissioned by Luigi Chinetti Jr. The car debuted at the Royal Automobile Club Concours in July and shows fewer than 44,000 km. It crosses the block at Broad Arrow's roughly 70-car Zoute sale in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, during Zoute Grand Prix Car Week.

Modern coachbuilt one-offs on Ferrari platforms almost never come to public auction, so this result will set a fresh data point for the bespoke-coachbuilding niche.

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