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• Porsche Unveils the Mission S
  
• Alfa Romeo Unveils the Cuorerosso Concept at the 2026 Paris Motor Show
  
• Broad Arrow Zoute Concours Auction Sets a Belgian Record with €34.6 Million in Sales
  
• Citroën Reimagines an Icon with the Electric 2 CV Concept
  
• Peugeot Unveils the 816-hp E-T16 Concept to Honor the 205 T16

Fiat’s Topolino has made TIME’s Best Inventions list. Fiat says the tiny electric two-seater was named to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 in the Design category. The name revives one of Fiat’s best-known nameplates for a new generation. TIME’s write-up describes a zero-emission city quadricycle with a 25-mph top speed and up to 46 miles of range from a five-hour charge, and says it went on sale in the U.S. in July. Fiat claims the Topolino has led Europe’s electric quadricycle segment since 2025, with strong sales in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland, and the No. 1 spot in France since July. Arnaud Belloni, CEO of Fiat, Abarth and Lancia, said the Topolino “proves that even the smallest vehicle can carry a big idea.” An open-air Dolcevita version is also offered.

Corvette ZRX1 takes on Pikes Peak, won’t answer Mustang GTD’s Nürburgring lap. Last spring, a heavily upgraded Ford Mustang GTD Competition, driven by factory driver Dirk Müller, ran the Nürburgring in 6:40.835, about 8 seconds faster than the U.S. production-spec ZR1X’s 6:49.275 from 2025. Corvette executive chief engineer Tony Roma said the team won’t respond on the ’Ring and will tackle Pikes Peak with the ZR1X next. He said he knows that “disappoints a lot of people.”

A secret BMW Motorsport E12 goes on sale in Austria Saturday. The 1979 car in Polaris Silver was a pre-production test mule for the 1980 M535i. It started life as a 525 and was converted with the 3.5-liter six from the 635CSi, rated at 218 hp. Carscoops says only a handful are thought to exist. The fully restored, fourth-owner car is offered by Humer Granner with no reserve and an estimate of €75,000–€95,000 (about $84,000–$106,000).

Ford’s Raptor Rally gets underway in Arizona. The owners’ event, now in its third year, started Friday in Lake Havasu, Arizona. Ford expects about 1,000 guests and more than 450 Raptor trucks, with Raptor clubs driving in together. The weekend program includes open desert trails, Baja-style loops, hot laps with pro drivers and the first Raptor Baja Sprint competition. Off-road racers Loren Healy, Brad Lovell and Mitch Guthrie Jr. are taking part, along with drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr. Afterward, Daniel Ricciardo and Rob Baird head off on a road trip that ends in Austin, where Ford Racing will be at the U.S. Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas on October 25.

NVIDIA is deepening its self-driving ties with Volvo and Mercedes-Benz. Volvo says it will build a hands-free system for city streets and highways on NVIDIA’s Hyperion sensor and computer hardware, Alpamayo driving software and Halos safety layer. It covers Volvo’s whole range, plug-in hybrids and gas models included, not just EVs. Volvo hasn’t named the first model, saying only that a brand-new car will get the system before the end of the decade. A day later, Mercedes-Benz announced a similar expansion that pairs the same NVIDIA hardware and software with its own MB.OS operating system. Mercedes is aiming at urban driver assistance, automated parking and, eventually, SAE Level 4 uses such as robotic limousines. Neither company disclosed financial terms, and Mercedes gave no launch timeline.

Also today:

• Ford Bronco: For 2027, the Outer Banks, Badlands, Heritage and new Filson trims get the Raptor’s twin-turbo 3.0-liter V6, tuned to 380 hp and 440 lb-ft.
• Bugatti Chiron crash: A blacked-out Chiron slid off wet pavement in Miami and stopped a few feet short of a tree, with heavy wheel and suspension damage. No injuries were reported.

Coming up:

• Through Sun., Oct. 18: Paris Motor Show public days at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.
• Sat., Oct. 17: Humer Granner auction in Austria, including the no-reserve BMW Motorsport E12 prototype.
• Sun., Oct. 18: NASCAR Cup Chase race, the Freeway Insurance 500 at Phoenix Raceway, 3 p.m. EDT on USA Network, per the published schedule.
• Late October: Gooding Christie’s plans to post its full Rétromobile New York catalog. The sales run Nov. 20–21 at the Javits Center.
• Sun., Oct. 25: F1 United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas.

LaFerrari sets a Belgian record. A 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari made €5,181,250 (about $5.8 million) at Broad Arrow’s Zoute Concours sale on October 9. Behind it were a 918 Spyder Weissach Package at €3.21 million (about $3.6 million), a 2005 Carrera GT at €2.76 million (about $3.1 million) and a 2015 McLaren P1 at €1.89 million (about $2.1 million). Broad Arrow says the €647,500 paid for a 1987 Aston Martin V8 Vantage X-Pack is an auction record for the coupe, and a one-off 2000 BMW M5 prototype with a VW W10 engine sold for €411,250. Registered bidders were up 44% on last year’s first Zoute sale.

Bonhams’ Keller Brothers Miura beats its low estimate. At Bonhams’ Zoute sale on October 11, the no-reserve 1970 Lamborghini Miura P400 S, chassis № 4578, sold for €1.725 million (about $1.9 million), against a €1.6–2 million estimate. All 12 Keller Brothers Collection cars sold, for €3.59 million combined. The overall sale made €10.2 million (about $11.4 million), with 53 of 72 cars sold (76%). Other top results: a 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster at €1.265 million, a 1968 Dino 206 GT at €563,500, a Countach 25th Anniversary at €517,500 and a 1979 BMW M1 at €437,000. The 1965 AC Cobra 289 (estimate €700,000–900,000) did not sell.

GM’s near-scrapped Cadillac dream car sells for $494,500. RM Sotheby’s sold the one-off 1956 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Town Car, known as XP-48, at its Hershey, Pennsylvania auction. The Motorama show car has an open chauffeur’s compartment and a rear cabin with a glass partition, a humidor and gold-finished fittings. It was also shown at the 1956 Paris Salon. In 1958 GM sent it to a Warren, Michigan junkyard to be crushed, but the owner hid it in a trailer. It later went to collector Joe Bortz and was restored by Roy Warshawsky and then Dick Baruk, who fitted a period-correct dual-quad V8 because the car never had a working drivetrain. It won Best in Class at Amelia Island in 2013.

Tesla’s Roadster finally faces its reveal. After many delays, Tesla has rescheduled the second-generation Roadster demo for today in Waco, Texas. It was pushed back from October 1 because of a severe-weather forecast, and Tesla says the event can only be held outdoors. Elon Musk has hinted the car could use SpaceX cold-gas thrusters to “fly” in some form, but Tesla hasn’t confirmed specs. The Roadster was first shown in 2017, when Founders Series buyers paid $250,000 up front. Musk says production will start a year or more after the reveal.

Bugatti tests the Tourbillon in the Spanish heat. Bugatti put the Tourbillon through hot-weather track testing near Seville, with track temperatures above 104°F. Engineers used more than 200 thermocouples to check the cabin and engine-bay cooling. The hybrid drivetrain pairs a Cosworth-built 8.3-liter naturally aspirated V16 with three electric motors, for a claimed 1,775 hp and 1,696 lb-ft. Bugatti says customer deliveries are coming soon.

Also today:

• Xiaomi SU7 Ultra prototypes were spotted at the Nürburgring with a twin-plane wing, a bigger splitter and a new diffuser, apparently to win back the EV lap record from the Taycan Turbo GT Manthey.
• Moke showed the electric Mk2 at Paris: 44 hp, 74 lb-ft, a 53-mph top speed and up to 105 miles of range (WLTP), from £36,000 (about $47,000). It’s built in the U.K.

Coming up:

• Today (Thu., Oct. 15): Porsche Mission S reveal (afternoon) and Tesla Roadster demo in Waco, Texas.
• Fri.–Sat., Oct. 16–17: Richmond Auctions’ Fall Spectacular at the Savoy Automobile Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, starting 10 a.m. EDT both days. It has more than 125 cars, including Dave Kindig’s 2024 Ridler Award winner “TwelveAir” and a 2021 Ford GT Liquid Carbon Edition, one of 30.
• Fri.–Sun., Oct. 23–25: F1 U.S. Grand Prix at COTA, with qualifying Saturday at 5 p.m. EDT and the race Sunday at 4 p.m. EDT. Points leader Andrea Kimi Antonelli could clinch the title there.
• Sat., Oct. 31: RM Sotheby’s London Auction at The Peninsula London, starting 12 p.m. EDT (4 p.m. GMT).