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Emerging Vehicles & Electric Architecture
Renault’s 5 Turbo 3E borrows a familiar silhouette but proposes a very different mechanical arrangement. The engineering deserves attention before the collectible narrative.
Electric Boats & Integrated Design
Frauscher’s 790 Spectre uses Porsche electric-drive technology, but the more interesting move is a hull developed around the system rather than a badge added afterwards.
Vehicles & Composite Architecture
The BMW i8’s lasting interest lies beneath its futuristic silhouette. Its carbon passenger cell and hybrid architecture now need to be read alongside an individual car’s history.
Motorcycles & Structural Materials
On Ducati’s 2020 Superleggera V4, carbon fibre is not just a surface treatment. It carries loads in the frame, swingarm and wheels.
Motorcycles & Experimental Engineering
Honda’s 1992 NR used oval pistons in a road motorcycle. Its significance lies in a difficult engineering question, not simply its rarity.
Sports Cars & Chassis Design
The Caterham CSR looks familiar. Its suspension shows why the outline of a long-lived car does not tell you everything about its engineering.
Motorcycles & Purposeful Geometry
BMW’s R 12 G/S recalls an influential motorcycle, but its stronger case begins with wheel size, suspension and the intended journey.
Restomods & Commissioned Engineering
Singer’s Carrera Coupe does not preserve a 911 by leaving it untouched. It makes the boundary between restoration and reinterpretation worth examining.
Compact Mobility & Folding Design
Honda’s Motocompacto folds a small seated electric scooter into a remarkably plain rectangle. Its subject is the awkward distance between transport and destination.
Lightweight Sports Cars & Ownership Judgement
The second-generation Alpine A110 finished production in July 2026. Its enduring argument is the engineering beneath its modest scale, not an automatic rise in price.
Lightweight Vehicles & Specialist Engineering
Ariel’s Nomad 2 leaves its structure in view. The next generation is interesting less as a larger power figure than as a thorough reconsideration of a deliberately unusual kind of car.
Portable Sailing & Inflatable Structures
Tiwal changes a less glamorous part of sailing: storing and moving the boat. An inflatable hull and dismantling frame make access to the water part of the design problem.
