Not much. It’s likely to be called the new DS 8 Crossback, and as you’d expect it features the usual mix of ‘dynamic’ and ‘huge SUV,’ which means it has a sloping roof along with some relatively aggressive styling. The car pictured is heavily covered in camo, but it’s still possible to see the resemblance the prototype has with the DS Aero Sport Lounge concept shown in February 2020.
Fancy a slice of rallying history in your garage? Here’s the chance to buy WRC champion Richard Burns’ own Evo 5 – it’s up for auction and it’s as new, with a scant 794 miles on the odo.
Team Audi Sport’s Carlos Sainz leads the 2024 Dakar Rally by 20 minutes after the first six stages of the Saudi Arabian event in his Audi RS Q e-tron E2. He heads teammate Mattias Ekström while Sébastien Loeb is third, a further nine minutes in arrears in his Bahrain Raid Extreme-entered Prodrive Hunter.
Carlos Sainz and co-driver Lucas Cruz have taken victory in the 2024 Dakar Rally, driving an Audi RS Q e-tron E2. It’s the two-time WRC champion’s fourth win in the event – in four makes of car – and Audi’s first, taken at the third and final attempt on the Saudi Arabian event.
The F1 calendar has another new destination; from 2026 Formula One circus will now stop in Madrid, Spain. The news was announced at an event in the Spanish city earlier today, and sees a renewed focus on Europe after massive expansion in North America and the Middle East.
People in the late 1940s/early 50s must have had very thin thighs. I know this little anthropological gem after having tried to get into a Porsche 356 Gmünd – the gap between the bottom of the steering wheel and the seat cushion is so narrow that even a child would struggle to thread themselves across.
This, then, is one of the earliest Porsches, a car from the days when the diminutive, rear-engined sports cars were built not in Germany, but Austria. And also a car that I have lusted after for as long as I’ve known such things exist.