The late Queen Elizabeth II was chauffeured to official engagements in some of Britain’s grandest automobiles, naturally. One of them, a specially prepared 2016 Bentley Mulsanne Extended Wheelbase, is now available at auction. Its estimated selling price is €400,000 to €450,000, roughly $460,000 to $520,000. Bidding is already underway through Broad Arrow Auctions in its […]
Anantara Hotels & Resorts has partnered with famed auto maker Alfa Romeo to create a luxurious self-driving tour across the south of Italy. The Dolce Vita Tour, beginning in Rome and ending on the Amalfi Coast, is an immersive driving route designed around slow travel, culture and fine dining. The route is not a race […]
Moët & Chandon is set to take over the track at Albert Park for 2027, but the champagne house will arrive to a different structure as Melbourne loses the season opener to Bahrain and drops to the third round of the calendar. Key Takeaways Key Background The champagne house will now become the fourth title […]
A new rulebook has blown up the F1 pecking order. Track the 2026 drivers’ championship round by round, and see how the points and the pay packets stack up. The 2026 Formula 1 season arrived with the biggest rulebook change in a generation, and the championship order shows it. New power units carrying far more […]
From a $99,900 jet-powered speeder bike to a $39,900 aircraft that folds into a pickup truck, a new generation of personal flying machines is accepting orders, completing test flights and preparing for delivery. Last year, I introduced the Volonaut Airbike, a jet-powered hoverbike with a price tag of $880,000 that looked like something out of […]
Lürssen—the German superyacht shipyard that’s known for building many of largest superyachts in the world is no stranger to superlatives. But describing the sheer number, size and diversity of the superyachts Lürssen have delivered this year may require a whole new vocabulary. That’s simply because Lürssen has delivered six, that’s right, six full-custom, one-of-a-kind, impossibly […]
To mark the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix on October 11, IWC Schaffhausen unveiled a new team watch for its partner, the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team. Crafted from lightweight and robust Grade 5 titanium, the Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team (Ref. IW388121) features a deep purple dial—a first for IWC’s Pilot’s […]
Picking five from the hundreds of extraordinary machines shown during the 2026 festivities is necessarily subjective. But these five stood out for reasons ranging from outrageous performance to history, rarity and one very large auction price. Monterey Car Week is one of those rare automotive gatherings where a $700,000 Lamborghini can seem almost ordinary. For […]
Browse any website listing superyachts for sale, and you’ll notice that a significant proportion of them have a “GT” of 499 or thereabouts. And that number’s seen as a good thing. So, what’s the significance of this vital statistic, and is it actually a standout feature? What GT Is Gran Turismo? No. Gross tonnage. But, […]
As the world’s fastest cars increasingly lean on complex hybrid systems, dual‑clutch automatics, all‑wheel drive and multiple layers of synthetic software—placing more distance between the operator and the act of driving—Hennessey Special Vehicles is making an unapologetically old-school bet. John Hennessey’s all‑new Blackbird is a touring hypercar built around a naturally aspirated V8, rear‑wheel drive, […]