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Aston Martin is in the headlines a lot right now. It’s working on creating one of the highest performance road cars ever made, capturing mid-engine performance car sales from Ferrari, and winning Le Mans outright.

The hypercar era of the World Endurance Championship is getting closer by the day. With road cars — albeit incredibly fast, exclusive, and expensive ones — coming in as the top class of competition, the series and its showpiece race will return to the feel of its glory days.

Ferrari has revealed a pair of stunning convertible variants of its F8 Tributo and 812 Superfast. The new F8 Spider and 812 GTS were unveiled at an exclusive event in Maranello on the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show.

With Frankfurt in full swing, BMW used its local show to unveil this, the Concept 4. It previews the German marque’s next midsize coupe, and if that front end is a sign of things to come, the next 4 Series should be all smiles for the camera.

The 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show is officially in full swing. Amongst the relentless push for electric cars, Audi Sport has shown that high performance is still in demand.

We all like to mark big achievements, and car manufacturers are no different. Bugatti is already making a celebratory model for its 110th anniversary, in the shape of the Chiron Sport 110 Ans and Centodieci versions, but it has something else to shout about this year too.

Here it is. After months of teasing, and years since the Mission E previewed it, the production Porsche Taycan has bowed. The four-door sedan will be the Stuttgart manufacturer’s first full EV.

Lamborghini is getting a jump on the usual Frankfurt Motor Show madness by unveiling this, the limited-production Lamborghini Sián. Not only is it the marque’s most powerful model ever, it’s also the first electrified product out of Sant’Agata.

Bugatti has become the first car manufacturer to build a 300mph road car from the factory. Like the Veyron before it, the Chiron has become the first standard, road-legal car to smash clean through what was previously thought an impossible landmark figure.

Audi has good news for fans of stupendously fast load-luggers: for the first time in the model’s history, the upcoming RS6 Avant is making the trip across the Atlantic.

UPDATE (08.21.19): Toyota UK has released a series of tweets in regards to the (now-deleted) original “illegal street racing” comment:

If you happen to be an evil megalomaniac with a serious automotive passion, there’s some good news for you at Pebble Beach this weekend.

Born-again luxury performance brand Bugatti is planning to take something very special to Monterey Car Week this year. It wowed the crowds at the same event last year with its Divo, which it said heralded a return to Bugatti’s coach-building traditions.

When it comes to icons of world motoring, there’s not much equal to the Mini. Arguably the progenitor of the transverse-engined, front-wheel drive hatchback shape that dominates Europe’s roads to this day, the first Mini rolled off the British Motor Corporation (BMC) production line in Oxford in 1959.

It might be hard to believe, but one of the most lauded enthusiast models is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. A very happy birthday, then, to Porsche’s 911 GT3.

If you happen to be in the market for a two-seat hypercar that can breeze through 200mph with ease, your decision just got slightly more difficult. Slovenian performance car manufacturer Tushek has revealed its newest offering, the TS900H Apex, ahead of the official launch at Salon Privé next month.

Continuation cars — modern builds of rare, original, historic cars made to the same specifications or using the same tooling — are so hot right now. British brands Jaguar and Aston Martin, among others, have been busy rebuilding lost and missing cars from days gone by. Whether it’s the nine burned XKSS cars, or 25 gadget-laden DB5s, there’s a big market for new old cars.

We’ve known about it for what seems like ages, but now it’s real: Chevrolet has taken the wraps off the very first production mid-engined Corvette.

Lotus has been teasing us for a little while, but has today revealed its new hypercar, Evija.

It’s a car we’ve been hearing about — and indeed hearing — for months, but until now not one that’s been used in anger.