Toyota is world champion again. The #8 TR010 HYBRID of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa won the first 6 Hours of Barcelona on 18 October 2026, and the sister #7 car crossed the… Toyota seals eighth WEC manufacturers’ title with a Barcelona 1-2
Same two drivers, same result. Naoki Yamamoto and Tadasuke Makino won the Autopolis GT 3 Hours again on 18 October 2026, this time in the #100 STANLEY HRC PRELUDE-GT, one year after they won the… Stanley Prelude-GT wins Autopolis again, Honda’s fourth win in a row
A MOTUL Mugen Civic race car from 1987, a new rotary-styled Mazda racer and a famous Japanese circuit full of hills. Gran Turismo 7’s free Spec IV – Part 1 update went live on 15… GT7 Spec IV adds the MOTUL Mugen Civic, a Mazda Gr.3 racer and SUGO
No V10, no gearbox, no clutch pedal, but maybe the kick of a race car gearshift. A new Toyota patent application shows how an electric car can fake the jolt of a sequential racing gearbox,… Toyota patent: electric Lexus LFA could fake race-car gearshifts
8.4 kg gone from the back of the car, and a new voice from pure titanium. NISMO has just released a Sports Titanium Muffler for the Fairlady Z NISMO, and it is about 35% lighter… NISMO titanium exhaust cuts 8.4 kg from the Z, plus a track ECU
After 13 years with the same car, the Nissan Skyline is finally changing. Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa says the all-new Skyline will be revealed in December 2026, and it was developed in about 26 months,… All-New Nissan Skyline Debuts in December After 13 Years of the V37
Two weeks. That is all it took for the new Mitsubishi Pajero to beat its sales target for the whole year in Japan. Mitsubishi said on 14 October that Japanese pre-orders had passed 4,000 units,… New Mitsubishi Pajero Passes 4,000 Orders in Japan, Eyes Dakar Return
Mazda still will not let the rotary die. At Japan Mobility Show Bizweek 2026 this week, it put a two-rotor rotary engine on display, and Mazda staff at the show said the system is still… Mazda’s Twin-Rotor Rotary-EV System Is Still Alive at JMS 2026
The first-generation Honda NSX has been reborn, and it now revs to 8,500 rpm. The JAS Tensei is a carbon-bodied restomod of the 1990s NSX, styled by Pininfarina, with a naturally aspirated V6 and a… JAS Tensei: The Original Honda NSX Reborn With a Manual and 8,500 rpm
For the first time ever, you can walk into a factory-backed NISMO Performance Centre outside Japan. It opened on Sunday 4 October 2026 in Melbourne, Australia, and its first job is clear: keeping R32, R33… NISMO Opens First Performance Centre Outside Japan for GT-R Owners
