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Showing up at the tony 24 Hours of Le Mans race weekend in France, the BMW M Concept Neue Klasse is probably the closest (official) view we’ve had yet of the upcoming all-electric M3.

Rolls-Royce has updated its all-electric Spectre, with the coupe now boasting more power and range, along with a new charging port and more personalization options. As is the brand’s tradition when updating a vehicle, the new version is renamed the Spectre Series II — and as is also traditional, the model year wasn’t mentioned, although we expect it’s a 2027 and will refer to it as such.

In a landscape awash with bland crossovers and other less-than-engaging vehicles, news that a historically entertaining brand is hellbent on introducing three new manual-transmission models by 2027 is music to our ears.

It’s basically unbe-Leaf-able. Seeking to increase the number of models available in its showroom, Mitsubishi is raiding the closet of its corporate partner Nissan for a new car. Beginning later this year, dealers will have an all-electric vehicle to sell, one quite unlike Mitsu’s last EV attempt, the i-MIEV, which looked markedly like a computer mouse.

BMW has introduced the 2027 version of its 7 Series, marking its seventh generation. The German automaker said it’s the most extensive update it’s ever done on a model, which also introduces the company’s “Neue Klasse” technologies.

Showing up at the tony 24 Hours of Le Mans race weekend in France, the BMW M Concept Neue Klasse is probably the closest (official) view we’ve had yet of the upcoming all-electric M3. You remember — the one that promises a thousand horsepower in a car the size of a gnat.

NICE, France—Audi today unveiled the next chapter of its supercar legacy: Nuvolari. The Audi Nuvolari may have shed the R8 name, but its spirit lives on in the essence of the car: a mid-engine V8 wedged into an aluminum space-frame in a body that looks ready to abandon its terrestrial origins.

It’s finally confirmed: a supercharged 700-plus-horsepower Hellcat V8 will find its way under the hood of the new-gen Dodge Charger some time in the next five years. And it’s not the only new high-performance SRT offering in the works, with a halo car dubbed “Copperhead” also in development on a similar timeline.

More impressive, then, is that the quad-motor Luce can also hit 200 km/h from zero in 6.8 seconds. Now, most people understand a sub-three-second sprint to 100 is something notable. Fewer, however, are those that understand a sub-seven-second leap to 200 km/h is really moving.

If you’ve been on the fence about picking up a new BMW M3 equipped with a manual transmission, it seems like now is the time to move or get off the pot. According to an interview with an enthusiast publication, not only will the next M3 not be available with three pedals, it’s also making like a twelfth-grade graduate and taking a gap year.

“As drivers and car enthusiasts, we appreciate manuals too! That’s why our region worked very hard to keep them around; we know it matters to a small but passionate group of drivers who love being fully engaged and rowing their own gears,” a spokesperson for VW was quoted in an interview with the crew at The Fast Lane out of Colorado. “Even so, global demand continued to narrow to a point where the market can no longer sustain it. As much as it hurts, that reality meant making some tough choices.”

When Mercedes drove its pair of GT XX concept cars the circumference of the earth, they did it faster than even its engineers expected. Each running over 40,000 kilometres in under eight days, the two cars hearkened back to the futuristic C 111 concepts that blasted around the same Nardo test track five decades before.

In the wake of its first full-year financial loss since it went public in 1957, Honda has outlined plans to rebuild its global automobile division. These include scrapping its plan to phase out internal-combustion engines (ICE) by 2040; and its goal of instead launching 15 next-generation hybrids by 2030, with the first arriving within the next two years.

Electrification is dead, fuel economy regulations have been loosened, and the world — okay, maybe just Trump’s MAGA friends — want muscle cars. All of which means rumours that Chevrolet will bring back its discontinued-in-2024 Camaro for the 2028 model year are gathering quite a head of steam. Here’s what we know so far.

Ford is paring back the number of engines available in its 2027 Super Duty lineup, removing two lower-output powerplants from the heavy-duty pickup range and placing higher-output hardware front and center. The 6.8L gasoline V8, formerly the base drivetrain that came with the truck by default, has been retired and will not return for the 2027 model year. The standard-output 6.7L Power Stroke diesel V8 has also been dropped from the menu.

BMW will be rolling out its new iX3 later this year as part of its Neue Klasse line of vehicles. Here in Canada, the first trim in its range will be the iX3 50 xDrive, and the brand has set its starting price at $75,900.

As reported previously in these pages, Porsche’s Cayenne is going electric. Oh, there’ll still be gas-only versions and a plug-in hybrid available, but none will be able to match the incredible 1,139-horsepower the new battery-powered Coupé will have on hand.

Nissan Motor Company has set a new course with a cost-cutting focus on building smarter and culling its model lineup; but don’t interpret that as it’s not going to be building new and interesting vehicles. The Japanese automaker revealed several new models during a near week-long media preview session in Yokohama, Japan, including one coming to Canada by the end of the year