Kugel Werks in Los Angeles has transformed the exquisite silhouette of a 1960s Mercedes-Benz W111 coupe into a completely modern vehicle. The finished car retains the long hood, vertical grille, slender pillars, and sweeping roof that marked Paul Bracq’s original design, but almost everything beneath and behind those lines is from a contemporary high-performance Mercedes.
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Some people with serious money still chase ever-larger traditional superyachts. Others look at the same bank balance and choose something smaller, quieter, and far more practical. The HBY 140 SolarYacht from SolarYacht in Brandenburg, Germany, sits in that second group. Measuring 20 meters long and 7 meters wide, it offers 140 square meters of living space built as an aluminum trimaran. Base price starts at 595,000 euros. Fully equipped examples have listed around 830,000 euros.
Japanese magazines have started circulating fresh reports that Toyota is seriously considering a Gazoo Racing version of the current Prius. The talk centers on a possible reveal at the Tokyo Auto Salon in mid-January 2027, and the timing feels deliberate. Sales of the fifth-generation car have softened noticeably in key markets, including a sharp drop in the United States, raising questions about how much longer this generation will continue in its present form. A hotter Prius wearing GR or GR Sport badges would give the model a memorable final chapter if those questions turn into an actual phase-out.
Spyker spent 146 years getting to this point. Founded in 1880 by two brothers who started with horse-drawn coaches in the Netherlands, the company built its first automobile in 1898. By 1903 it had produced the world’s first six-cylinder four-wheel-drive car. Four years later one of its machines finished second in the punishing Peking-to-Paris race. A 1914 merger with a Dutch aircraft factory left aviation permanently in its blood, and the 1919 C Aerocoque showed the world what streamlined bodywork could look like. After decades of silence the brand returned in 2000 with ornate mid-engine cars. Bankruptcy followed, legal fights over the name came and went, and now the C8 Preliator XXV Coupé marks the start of another chapter.
Gordon Murray stood at The Quail this afternoon and showed the world the car a lot of people have been quietly hoping he would build. The Gordon Murray Special Vehicles S1 is not a track weapon with wings and splitters bolted on for effect. It is the road-focused sibling to last year’s S1 LM, stripped of the race-car drama and shaped into something that feels closer in spirit to the original McLaren F1 than anything else he has done since.