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BMW Is Thrashing A $580K 8-Series Shooting Brake At The ‘Ring For 70 Buyers Who Won’t

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BMW’s 8-Series-based Speedtop was spied at the Ring in all its long-roof glory. The Luxury wagon made its debut at Villa d’Este last May with bi-turbo M8 power. Production is capped at 70 units with prices likely to easily exceed €500,000. BMW’s gorgeous Speedtop is heading toward production, but before wealthy collectors tuck them away in climate-controlled garages beside vintage Rolex displays and expensive speedboats, BMW ’s engineers are making sure the big shooting brake can survive a proper workout at the Nurburgring. Spy photographers caught the ultra-exclusive long-roof prototype lapping the German circuit wearing BMW’s familiar swirly camouflage wrap, though there’s no hiding the car’s dramatic proportions, or its elegant details. The stretched roofline, tiny fin-style door handles, and ultra-slim rear lights all remain intact from the Speedtop shown at Villa d’Este last May. Mo...
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Ford’s New Premium Bronco Borrows A Page From Subaru’s L.L. Bean Playbook

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Ford partners with Filson for a premium and rugged Bronco trim. Teaser reveals a 4-door Bronco with a branded spare tire cover. The off-roader will debut on June 3, and go on sale in early 2027. Ford is pushing the Bronco further upmarket, and the partner doing the heavy lifting on the lifestyle front is Filson. The Seattle outdoor apparel brand has been making gear for the kind of customer Ford thinks it wants in showrooms, and now its name will sit on a 4×4. The Bronco Filson has been teased ahead of a June 3 debut, with a market launch coming next year. The Blue Oval is positioning the model as “a premium 4×4 for adventurers who demand gear they can trust when conditions turn tough.” Ford has done apparel tie-ups before, most recently with Carhartt, and Subaru rode the L.L. Bean Outback for years because it thought buyers overlapped. Same bet here. More: Ford’s Reviving The Fiesta And Building A Bronco Only...
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Touring’s New Aperta Has The Manual Gearbox Ferrari’s Spiders Never Will

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Touring teases roofless Ferrari 550 restomod with manual gearbox and removable roof panel. New Aperta appears targa-style unlike Ferrari’s fully convertible, limited edition 550 Barchetta. Ferrari offers the new 12Cilindri in Spider and coupe versions, but not with a manual gearbox. Touring Superleggera’s gorgeous Ferrari 550-based V12 Veloce is already one of the prettiest restomods around. Now the Italian coachbuilder’s about to make it even more desirable by chopping the roof off. Or at least part of it. The company has released a teaser for an upcoming V12 Veloce Aperta that’ll debut in June, Aperta being the name Ferrari often uses on its most exclusive open-top cars. A single darkened teaser image shows a reimagined 550 with a 911 Targa-style wraparound rear window, a B-pillar roll hoop, and a cockpit open to the elements. Related: Ferrari’s V12 Supercar Has A Shady Little Window Problem In The US T...
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