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With less than two weeks to go before the doors open to the 2026 Paris Motor Show, Alfa Romeo has released the name of its eagerly awaited concept car. It’ll be called the Cuorerosso, bringing the Italian words for heart and red together. It’s widely expected that the Cuorerosso will take the form of a sports coupe and Alfa Romeo doesn’t attempt to dampen such enthusiasm with its comment: “giving shape to a declaration of intent that goes beyond the name and tells of a car of the future designed first and foremost to excite.”

Alpine has given us another glimpse of the new A110, teasing its shape beneath a sculpted blue veil inspired partly by Concorde breaking the sound barrier. The new sports car will use Alpine’s recently announced APP platform, following the A110 Future development mule seen at Goodwood in July. Alpine says the production car will retain familiar A110 cues including its proportions, V-shaped front-end treatment and dual-light signature, while gaining a shark-nose front, lower rear, teardrop-shaped cabin and pronounced wheelarches. The sculpture will be on display at the Paris Motor Show.

Imported tyres accounted for 40 per cent of all newly fitted tyres in the EU in 2024, according to a new Oxford Economics study commissioned by Tyres Europe. That growing reliance comes despite a substantial European industry, with Tyres Europe members operating more than 70 production plants and 20 R&D centres in Europe. The study says tyre makers are also massively dependent on imported materials: imports represent 11.9 per cent of EU tyre production value, versus a seven per cent economy-wide average, while the EU relies entirely on imports for natural rubber.

Autocar in the UK is reporting that an electric 'microcar' inspired by the cool Dacia Hipster concept will go into production in China in 2027, in the same factory the first-generation Dacia Spring was manufactured. It will be built to the class's strict regulations in terms of weight, power output and speed, though should be considerably cheaper to buy than a regular EV.

Toyota Racing will supply the hydrogen-combustion engine for the MissionH24 H24EVO endurance-racing prototype. The 3.5-litre V6, developed specifically for motorsport, will run on liquid hydrogen and work with the car’s hybrid system to produce over 880hp. MissionH24 says that should bring performance close to European Le Mans Series prototype levels. Engineering work is already under way to integrate the engine, chassis, gearbox, electronics and software ahead of the H24EVO’s first tests.