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The Ultimate Guide to Monterey Car Week 2025

For classic car and supercar enthusiasts alike, Monterey Car Week is one of the most exciting events of the year—it's like Christmas in August. The annual automotive extravaganza has been around for 75 years, and it promises to be even more extravagant going into 2025.

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Bugatti's W-16 Might Not Be Dead After All

Bugatti's legendary W-16 engine has been in production since 2005, where it debuted in the Veyron 16.4. It's been a staple of the company's lineup since, powering every model from the brand in various forms.

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These Are Bugatti's Best Special Edition Hypercars

The new Brouillard might be one of the most beautiful special edition Bugattis we've ever seen. At least, in this author's humble opinion. Based on the now-discontinued W-16 chassis, the one-of-one Bug has gorgeous lines, a beautiful interior, and a few fun features to boot. Peep the tiny horse sculpture…

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GM and Hyundai Will Develop Trucks, Cars, and Vans Together

We certainly didn’t have a General Motors and Hyundai tie-up on our bingo cards last year when the two signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore a potential collaboration. Then again, perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised. After all, weirder things have happened. Remember DaimlerChrysler? And we don’t even have…

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Bugatti's 2026 supercar is a £3.2m state-of-the-art sound system

Bugatti swaps traditional speaker tech for something smarter in its 2026 supercar

The Bugatti Tourbillon Doesn't Have Real Speakers. It Uses Something Much Cooler

The Bugatti Tourbillon is filled with all sorts of neat innovations. A steering wheel that rotates around a central hub, a titanium gauge cluster, 3D-printed suspension components, and a monster rear diffuser that doubles as a crash structure. Add to that a sound system that doesn't use traditional speakers.

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Check Out This 100 Mph+ Electric Scooter With a Better Power-To-Weight Ratio Than a Bugatti Veyron

Bo has developed an ultra-high-performance electric scooter under ‘The Turbo’ codename. With a higher power-to-weight ratio than a Bugatti Veyron, its mission: World’s Fastest Scooter.

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Bugatti Drives Your Hypercar to 186 MPH Before Delivery

The Chiron era may be coming to an end, but Bugatti still has interesting details to share about the Mistral, the last of the W-16 breed. The 8.0-liter, quad-turbo machine broke cover three years ago as a €5 million roadster limited to 99 units, all of which were sold before…

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Moment anti-terror police arrest £100m drug kingpin who plotted murder from luxury Dubai villa

Playboy James Harding lived lavish lifestyle driving a Lamborghini and Bugatti while hiring private jet to London

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Forget Dealerships—These 5 Cars Are Reserved for the 1%

When most people think about buying a car, they picture a trip to the local dealership, a test drive, and maybe a little haggling over the price. But car shopping is an entirely different experience for the world’s wealthiest. Some vehicles are so exclusive, rare, and expensive that you’ll never…

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Bugatti Boss on Turbocharged Hybrid Supercars: 'I Don't Get It'

While the Chiron was essentially an evolution of the Veyron before it, the Tourbillon represents a radical departure. Molsheim’s all-new performance flagship ditches the quad-turbo W-16 engine in favor of a V-16 without forced induction. Cosworth helped develop the naturally aspirated powerhouse, which features an 8.3-liter displacement and an impressively…

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Bugatti's Boss Owns and Drives a Volkswagen Golf R32

Mate Rimac made a name for himself by developing some of the most exciting EVs out there. However, his rise to success began with a humble BMW E30 and a blown engine. Well before the Concept_One and the Nevera that followed, a 1983 3 Series was converted for electric duty…

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Giamaro's Quad-Turbo V-12 Is Insane: 'The King of Engines'

When our colleagues at Motor1 Italia broke the story late last year on a quad-turbocharged V-12 from a brand-new automaker, it’s safe to say it caused a stir. Now, Giamaro Automobili has revealed its first two cars, the Katla and Albor, and both feature this mad, 2,100-plus-horsepower engine.

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This Quad-Turbo V-12 Hypercar Aims To Take on Pagani

The RD center of Giamaro Automobili smells like drying paint. In the small Emilia-Romagna town of Cavezzo, Italy, a half-hour from Modena, workers are busily preparing this former medical-supplies factory for the launch of the Katla, the first hypercar from a brand-new challenger to the Italian establishment. They’re a week…

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Watch, and Listen, as a Ducati Races a Lamborghini in an Epic Sibling Rivalry

Lamborghini and Ducati are both owned by the same parent company, and as you'd expect, sometimes they get together. Naturally, when that occurs, they race each other.

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How a Ducati win at Le Mans could take a historic record from Honda's hands

The Le Mans Bugatti circuit has been a stronghold for Ducati Desmosedicis ever since Danilo Petrucci crossed the line to take victory in 2020. But the streak of wins he launched has been a true team effort.

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Why the factory Ducati squad is flexing its muscles in pursuit of history at Le Mans

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The Cadillac Celestiq Will Be as Rare as a Bugatti

No one expects the Cadillac Celestiq to be a big seller for the brand. It’s a hand-built electric vehicle that costs $340,000, and it can take customers weeks or months to finalize the design. So Cadillac won’t be popping them out like Escalades.

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Video: The Bugatti Bolide's Track Pace Will Melt Your Mind

The Bugatti Bolide is a track-only hypercar unlike any other. Only 40 will ever exist, and each one costs $4 million. It's the type of car you'd expect to find in a climate-controlled garage waiting for the 2088 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

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Brabus Is Building a Freakin' Island

Automaker-branded real estate is a booming business. Aston Martin and Porsche both have skyscrapers in Miami, soon to be followed by Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, and Pagani. Bugatti, meanwhile, is building a massive 171-story-tall tower in Dubai. And soon, Brabus will have—not just one skyscraper—but an entire freakin’ island.

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Bugatti's New V-16 Has a Bizarre Timing System

Bugatti just released a video and accompanying photos of the Tourbillon's amazing, Cosworth-built, naturally aspirated V-16, and obviously, we're poring over all of it. What jumped out at us is the V-16's unique timing system. It's unlike anything we've ever seen in an automotive engine.

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How Ferdinand Piëch Invented the Bugatti Veyron

A legend of the automotive industry, even six years after his death: Ferdinand Karl Piëch, born in Vienna on April 17, 1937, was fascinated by technology from an early age—a passion that would define his entire life. He studied mechanical engineering in Zurich and began his career at Porsche, where…

This watch costs as much as my entire street – and it's inspired by the Bugatti Tourbillon

The Jacob & Co Bugatti Tourbillon Baguette is an exorbitant display of wealth – and it's absolutely brilliant.

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Rimac Wants Complete Control of Bugatti: Report

In late 2021, the pillars of the hypercar world were shaken. Rimac and Bugatti merged under a new joint venture called, fittingly, Bugatti Rimac. Could the two brands—one being a young EV hypercar builder and the other a seasoned combustion-engined hypercar powerhouse—actually coexist without sacrificing each brand's identity? Bugatti Rimac…

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Designing a Bugatti: How 300-MPH Hypercars Come to Life

Car designers do not simply draw cars. To be a great one, you need a deep technical understanding, and must form productive relationships with everyone involved in making a vehicle come to life. Bugatti design chief Frank Heyl is a perfect example.

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