A new Bugatti doesn't come along every day, but just two years after the record-breaking Chiron launched, there's already a fresh example: the Bugatti Divo. Clearly a sibling of the existing car, the Divo nonetheless diverges from the family in its main focus. Read on for five things you need to know about the Bugatti Divo.
BMW's Z-series roadsters are arguably the epitome of the brand: punchy two-seaters, begging to be thrown at a curvy mountain road. The all-new 2019 Z4 - revealed in Z4 M40i form this week at Monterey Car Week - should follow right in those tire-marks, but not everybody is convinced. Only one route seemed fair: throw it open to your vote.
A healthy respect for the past may be de rigeur for Monterey Car Week, but Mercedes-Benz is pairing its latest, retro-themed concept car with a thoroughly modern electric drivetrain. The Mercedes-Benz EQ Silver Arrow is the latest of the automaker's EQ line-up of electrified concepts, a single-seater EV racer that apparently "embodies progressive luxury."
Jaguar's E-Type Zero has a lot going for it: the style and charm of a classic 60s roadster, but with the electrified drivetrain of a modern EV. While there are plenty of reasons to fall for the open-top electric icon - confirmed, at Monterey Car Week, to be going into production from 2020 - what really stands out is how Jaguar has taken a very different approach from the rest of the EV-making industry.
Nobody said the Chiron was underwhelming, but the Bugatti Divo certainly suggests there's more than one way to make a ridiculously-fast hypercar. Making its world debut in California today, the Divo reimagines the Chiron as a 1,479 horsepower, crisply-cornering beast.
Is there such a thing as too powerful? Lamborghini certainly doesn't subscribe to such a concept, as the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ revealed at Monterey Car Week demonstrates. 770 horsepower and a top speed in excess of 217 mph suggests temperance and restraint still haven't found their way into the Italian supercar-maker's vocabulary.
Acura's second-generation NSX tried the impossible: a supercar that was not only usable every day, but without headaches or frustrations along the way. If in the process it sacrificed a little drama in the name of accessibility, the 2019 NSX nudges things back in the right direction. A series of focused changes could pay big dividends to the hybrid coupe.
Acura's potent hybrid sports car is getting a refresh, with the 2019 Acura NSX making its debut at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance this year. Promising new styling, a more upscale interior as standard, and performance improvements courtesy of chassis upgrades, it should leave the NSX even more capable.
Audi may be readying its e-tron all-electric SUV for the market, but it picked Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance to reveal a far more playful EV concept, the PB18 e-tron supercar. Promising to cut the assumption that tomorrow's electric vehicles will inevitably be at least semi-autonomous and vaguely anodyne, the PB18 e-tron goes in entirely the opposite direction.
Jaguar may be readying its I-PACE electric SUV, but it's news of an altogether more seductive EV that has our attention: the stunning E-Type Zero is going into production. Having whet our collective appetites last year when it converted a classic Jaguar E-Type convertible into an all-electric roadster, now the automaker plans to put the cars up for sale.
Infiniti may be looking ahead to its promise of all-electrified powertrains from 2021, but it can't seem to help cherrypicking retro ideas for its striking concept cars. The Infiniti Prototype 10 is no exception, revealed this week at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and pairing a thoroughly modern EV drive with a delicious California speedster design.
There's arguably no better place than the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance to launch a convertible, and so the all-new 2019 BMW Z4 M40i Roadster First Edition has picked the perfect spot to make its debut. Arriving twelve months after the automaker teased its droptop at Pebble last year, the new BMW Roadster promises more enthusiastic driving and more technology than before.