Weekly Digest ⌚️ Rolls-Royce Reveals Custom Two-Door Droptail With an Audemars Piguet TimepieceTLDR: For the first time ever, Rolls-Royce has created a two-door, two-seater drop top 'roadster' called the La Rose Noire. It even includes a custom Audemars Piguet timepiece mounted to the dashboard that can be removed and worn on the wrist. Why It Matters: For a company like Rolls-Royce to stray from its tradition and create something exciting like this is rare, especially with a result this stunning. There's so much detail to the La Rose Noire Droptail as well, meaning it's not just a one-and-done – they are planning on creating a total of four.
Read the full article here.  💨 Ford Reveals the Road-Legal Mustang GTD Race CarTLDR: Ford took over Monterey Car Week with its ultra-hardcore, stunningly designed Mustang GTD that's meant to kill its hardcore track focused German rivals. It isn't a street car made for the track – Ford states it's a race car made road legal. Why It Matters: The vehicle, which joins the Mustang family as the premier member of its street-legal and track-only entourage, was conceptualized in light of the Mustang GT3 race car’s return to Le Mans next year. The Mustang GTD features technology you would never have expected from a Mustang, such as dry-sump lubrication, active mid-mounted suspension system, carbon fiber driveshaft and so much more.
Read the full article here.  🛣️ Roadtripping With the New Range Rover SportTLDR: After spending close to a year with it, we've concluded that the new Range Rover Sport is technically a jack-of-all-trades as well as a master of it all. Why It Matters: We threw challenge after challenge at it – and it conquered it all without breaking a sweat. It can wade through water; crawl up, down, and along the most treacherous of terrains. On all sorts of roads, it can be switched into a multitude of driving modes depending on the demands ahead of it. Basically it can go anywhere.
Read the full article here.  ✨ Nissan Unveils 2024 Skyline NISMOTLDR: For those looking for something different from "just another GT-R," Nissan has shown off the NISMO sporty edition of the Nissan Skyline in Japan, known more commonly in the United States as an Infiniti Q50. Why It Matters: The NISMO brand has made some already-very-capable cars into true sports cars. To have the NISMO touch on a pedestrian Nissan Skyline means a car you can seriously enjoy every day and not bat an eyelash. Trouble is though, it's limited to Japan only.
Read the full article here.  💪 RUF Reveals the CTR3 Evo: Its Most Powerful Supercar YetTLDR: With over 800hp and 730 lb-ft of torque, the CTR3 Evo is no ordinary RUF Porsche build – it's now the most powerful car ever made by the German tuner. Because the CTR3 Clubsport – the car it was built upon – just wasn't powerful enough. Why It Matters: RUF has been the high-end tuner for Porsches for ages and it's synonymous for pushing the envelope. Much like its Yellowbird CTR was the fastest production car in the world at its time, the CTR3 Evo is just as superlative.
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