Highlights

INEOS Automotive has launched the Grenadier Helmsman, the first in a new series of special editions inspired by the elements. Available on Station Wagon and Quartermaster models for the 2027 model year, the nautically themed Helmsman combines popular features from previous limited editions with new oceanic hues, a Dark Exterior Pack and oyster-coloured seat inserts. Prices start from $78,995 with order books now open.

Bentley Motors lit up Manhattan’s West Village with a one-night gallery at CART Department, pairing the all-new, fully electric Torcal in its first New York appearance with the US debut of the Flying Spur Art Car by British artist David Gwyther, known as Death Spray. The evening brought Gwyther, CART Department founder Larry Warsh, and critic Carlo McCormick together to explore light as a shared medium of automotive design and contemporary art.

British artist Jonny Ambrose celebrates the automotive innovators of Coventry and Warwickshire in INNOVATION, CAMOUFLAGE & DISCOVERY, a new solo exhibition at Coventry’s Herbert Art Gallery & Museum running November 10 through December 5. His bold geometric artworks hide, then reveal, vehicles from CALLUM, Twisted, Tolman, Maeving and the region’s museums and universities, rendered as visual mazes inspired by wartime camouflage and the prototype-disguise patterns of today.

The finalists in the 2026 Royal Automobile Club Historic Awards have been revealed across eight categories, from competitive events and motoring spectacles to restoration, motoring art, and young achievers. Winners will be celebrated at the Club’s Pall Mall clubhouse on 19 November, with the restoration jury heading to Bicester Motion to examine the three finalist cars in detail. Tickets for the awards evening are now on sale.

The MGS5 EV has been named the most reliable small family electric SUV in the 2026 What Car? Reliability Survey, with the MG5 electric estate third among all electric cars. MG was also named the year’s most-improved brand, entering the top ten for the first time in ninth place with a 92.0% score. The survey drew responses from 39,332 UK vehicle owners covering 225 models and 30 brands.

MINI USA earned a third-place X-Cross class podium, Rookie of the Year honors and the Challenge Accepted Award in its first-ever Rebelle Rally appearance. Driver Felicia Killman and navigator Erika Ferrer, the #NotSoMINIRebelles, covered more than 1,500 miles of Nevada, California and Utah desert in the new 2027 MINI Countryman Untamed Edition, navigating by map, compass and roadbook with GPS prohibited.

MINI USA’s 20th-anniversary MINI Takes the States rally rolls through New York this weekend, October 23-25, carrying owners from Buffalo through Syracuse to Lake Placid against peak Adirondack fall color. The New York weekend is the second of three remixed 2026 rallies, with a Smash Mouth concert Saturday night and a Florida finale set for November 13-15. The series also supports Best Friends Animal Society.

Tom Hartley Jnr is offering five significant McLaren Formula 1 cars directly from McLaren Racing: two 1991 MP4/6As from the Senna and Berger era, Jenson Button’s 2012 MP4/27A, Lando Norris’s 2021 MCL35M and the 2023 MCL37A, the most modern Formula 1 car ever offered for private ownership. Each car has remained in McLaren’s custody since its final race and will be prepared by the team for its next owner.

Bentley has gathered four expressions of its iconic Blower at Crewe: the original 1929 Team Car No. 2, the fully electric 85 per cent scale Blower Jnr from Hedley Studios, and new 1:8 and 1:18 scale models from the Amalgam Collection. The meeting marks completion of the first 25 road-legal Blower Jnrs, the first of them Bentley’s own, and the release of Amalgam’s most technically accomplished 1:18 scale model yet.

British Racing Motors has unveiled the fully restored BRM P351, its one-of-one Group C sports prototype and the newest racing chassis in the marque’s history. Built for the 1992 World Sportscar Championship and Le Mans with a naturally aspirated 3.5-litre BRM V12, the P351 has been returned to its original 1992 specification by Dawson Racing, now runs on sustainable fuel, and is being prepared to race again. It appeared at Silverstone alongside the BRM P15 V16 Chassis IV.

American collectors can’t get enough of Lunaz’s reborn Range Rover Classics, electric or LS3 V8, and the Silverstone firm is answering with a second production shift, a workforce set to double, and just 25 Range Rovers planned for 2027. Bespoke one-of-one commissions start from a bare-metal restoration and end wherever the client’s imagination (or yacht) dictates.

Two electric concepts MG debuted at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July show where the brand is headed by looking at where it has been: the MGB GT-inspired MG GO! previews a compact hatchback for 2027, while the Cyber Concept channels the EX181 record car. Meanwhile, record sales roll on and the new Spanish plant nears approval.

The 1000 Miglia has unveiled the route for its 2027 Centenary edition: a six-day race from May 24 to 29, 2027, returning to an anti-clockwise loop in the spirit of the original 1927 running. From Brescia through Parma, Modena, Florence, Siena and Rome, then north via Perugia, the Adriatic coast and Verona, the Centenary route culminates in a celebration of Brescia, where the legend of the Red Arrow was born a century ago.

Zenos has unveiled the latest generation of the celebrated E10 in production form for the first time, with prices starting at £115,900 and deliveries from the second quarter of 2027. The 2027 range offers two turbocharged models: the 300bhp E10 r2 and the 380bhp E10 rZ, both pairing a six-speed manual gearbox with a carbon fibre tub and bodywork over an extruded aluminium chassis for a 790kg kerb weight.

Young enthusiasts at the Audrain Newport Concours & Motor Week 2026 took home more than memories: through Greg Stanley’s “See a Kid, Give a Book” initiative, with support from Broad Arrow Auctions and Hagerty, 38 complimentary copies of “The Enthusiast’s Guide to Collector Cars” went to kids ages 7 to 16, many of them Hagerty Youth Judges. The program has now placed more than 150 books into young hands at seven events.

Bentley Motors has named Oscar-winning actor and producer Michelle Yeoh as a global brand ambassador, just weeks after the unveiling of Torcal, the marque’s first fully electric vehicle. Yeoh joins a roster of Bentley ambassadors including Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Mai Ikuzawa and Greg Williams, and was photographed by Williams for the announcement.

The Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar makes its Spanish competition debut at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya this Sunday as the FIA World Endurance Championship visits the track for the first time. The Aston Martin THOR Team’s #007 and #009 cars chase a ninth consecutive points finish, while the #27 THOR Vantage GT3 stays in the LMGT3 title fight with two rounds to go.

Vauxhall has revealed the STX Concept at the Paris Motor Show, a vision of the future electric estate and the first car to wear the brand’s new Griffin emblem. The Sports Tourer eXperimental previews the next stage of Vauxhall’s Bold and Pure design philosophy, with a new Vizor front end, active aerodynamics, all-wheel drive and a top speed of more than 124mph.