Bill Smith, Author at The Flighter

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Peugeot E-T16 Concept Brings Group B Rally Fury Into the Electric Age

By Bill Smith October 12, 2026

Forty years after the original 205 T16 claimed consecutive World Rally Championships, Peugeot has rolled out a modern electric tribute that packs serious power and a clear line to the next E-208. Unveiled at the Paris Motor Show, the E-T16 Concept uses three electric motors to deliver 816 horsepower, making it the strongest Peugeot ever built. One motor drives the front wheels while two sit at the rear, with real-time torque vectoring that shifts power between axles and individual rear wheels as grip changes.

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This Jet Turbine Harley Reaches Sixty Miles Per Hour on Pure Thrust Alone

By Bill Smith October 10, 2026

Sean Kerr of Bikes and Beards sent a thoroughly dead Harley-Davidson to Matt at Warped after the original V-twin failed beyond repair. Pistons sat exposed. Cylinder heads and walls were gone. Rather than rebuild the stock powerplant, Matt spent more than four hundred hours removing every trace of the conventional drivetrain and fitting a pair of micro-turbines in its place.

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Singer DLS Turbo Turns a Classic 964 Into a 700 Horsepower Homage

By Bill Smith October 7, 2026

Singer Vehicle Design takes an ordinary 964-generation Porsche 911 and rebuilds it into something that looks and drives like a modern take on the wild 934 and 935 race cars of the late 1970s. Only 99 of these DLS Turbo cars will ever exist, and each one starts life as a donor 964 that gets stripped to the bare shell before the real work begins.

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2027 Polestar 5 Grand Tourer Brings Precept Vision to European Roads With Serious Pace

By Bill Smith October 6, 2026

European buyers are getting a low-slung four-door electric grand tourer that stays remarkably faithful to the 2020 Precept concept. Polestar shaped the production car around a bonded aluminum structure developed specifically for this model, giving it the torsional stiffness more often associated with lightweight sports cars while keeping overall mass in check for a vehicle of its size.

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Voltoro V1 Widebody Turns the Lamborghini Revuelto Into a Sharper Predator

By Bill Smith October 4, 2026

Venuum has finished its first full conversion of a Lamborghini Revuelto, and the result sits lower and wider than the factory car while still respecting the original shape. Called the Voltoro V1, the project takes its name from the Italian word “voltare,” which means to turn or rotate. The shop’s stated aim was simple: make the car wider, lower, and more precise without breaking the discipline of Lamborghini’s lines. The finished example now rolling in Dubai shows they largely succeeded.