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 […]
James Bond may be forever linked with Aston Martin, but Daniel Craig apparently has room in his garage for something considerably slower, squarer and muddier. A 1959 Land Rover 109 Series II pickup formerly owned by Craig and his wife, actress Rachel Weisz, sold Thursday on Bring a Trailer for $56,000 after 35 bids. Earlier […]
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 […]
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, […]
Four years after it launched, Rolls-Royce has updated its Spectre electric car with more power, more range, faster charging – and, of course, greater options for customization. Called the Spectre Series II, the new car has a range of 390 miles (using the European WLTP standard), which is an 18 percent improvement over the original. […]
A Heuer Monaco Reference 1133B, circa 1969, worn by Steve McQueen in the motion picture Le Mans, is the top lot of Sotheby’s Important Watches auction in New York on June 15. The watch is accompanied by hundreds of pages of documentation—including correspondence between the film production and Heuer, as well as more than 200 […]
Since you’re looking at the cars and bikes section of Forbes, I will go out on a limb and say the new Ferrari Luce probably isn’t for you. Ideally, this article should be in a fashion or industrial design section. Perhaps one of those surprisingly heavy quarterly magazines where the correspondent has had time to […]
The unveiling of a new electric supercar from Ferrari sharply divided the internet Tuesday morning as traditionalists described the design as “an Apple product on wheels” and supporters praised the luxury brand’s bold attempt at a reinvention. Key Facts Crucial Quote “The Luce does not look like a Ferrari. It looks like the concept for […]