On a quiet Brazilian country airfield, Eve Air Mobility’s near-final engineering prototype accomplished something unprecedented. For the first time, the back pusher propeller was able to accelerate while in flight. That simple change marked the start of the transition phase, in which vertical rotor lift begins to give way to wing lift.
Smart just pulled the covers off its long-awaited two-seat city car months early, and the view is pure urban practicality. Murals painted across Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires and Melbourne gave the first clear look at the production #2. Chinese regulatory filings then filled in the hard numbers. Official world premiere still sits at the Paris Motor Show in October, with customer deliveries planned for 2027.
Porsche Cars Australia chose a landmark anniversary to create something that could only exist in this place. Seventy-five years after the brand first reached Australian shores in 1951, the company worked with its Sonderwunsch team, Style Porsche designers, and Sydney artist Werner Bronkhorst to produce a single 911 Turbo S. They named it the Land Down Under.
Florida’s Doroni Aerospace spent years designing a two-seat electric aircraft that could lift off from a driveway and land back home without needing a runway or a pilot’s license measured in hundreds of hours. On August 5 the Federal Aviation Administration finally gave that vision a real regulatory foundation.
Polaris just handed the high-performance side-by-side world a new leader. The 2027 RZR Pro R Boost arrives with a turbocharged 2.0-liter ProStar Fury engine that produces 275 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 223 pound-feet of torque at 6,000 rpm. That output makes it the strongest factory side-by-side available, clearing the previous marks set by the Kawasaki Teryx H2 and Can-Am Maverick R.