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2019 Quail

Monterey Car Week 2019: What You Missed At The Quail

11-Rimac2_ed Eric Adams

Monterey Car Week—the cluster of automotive events that culminates with the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance on Sunday—draws an eclectic group of cars and an equally varied mix of enthusiasts to its events. Though Pebble Beach remains the crown jewel, another event known formally as The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering is a close-second, with stunning examples of essentially every vintage and type of car imaginable present and accounted for.

This years event, held yesterday, saw a ton of supercars and concepts cars, as well as enough fan-favorites for every car nut, from the Batmobile to imported Honda micro-trucks to rare and quirky models from flash-in-the-pan brands now decades gone.


Acura Type S

Acura’s gorgeous concept previews some of the design cues we’ll see on the next TLX, with carefully chiseled features and a more refined and subtly sophisticated overall vibe than some of Acura’s recent works.


Drako GTE

This four-motor electric super-sedan will seat four and propel them to 206 mph, thanks to its combined 1,200 horsepower and unfathomable 6,491 pound-feet of torque.


VW Buses

Quail covers all eras and all economic strata, and nostalgia runs deep. Here, a row of gorgeous Volkswagen Buses lights up our lives.


DeTomaso P72

Legendary nameplate DeTomaso comes roaring back from the dead under new ownership, and its furst effort is a stunning carbon-fiber hypercar. It will be produced in fewer than 100 copies at $850,000 each.


Lamborghini Aventador SVJ 63

Nobody does special editions better than the Italians. This limited-production Aventador roadster is named after the year the company was founded, and it features dramatic styling and colors not available on the more boring mainstream versions of the Aventador.


Koenigsegg Jesko

The Swedish hypercar manufacturer showed off its new 1,500 hp Jesko, names after founder Christian von Koenigsegg’s father. The car has a 9-speed “Light Speed” transmission that we’re pretty sure will blow your doors off.


Lotus Evija

Only 130 of these new Lotus electric hypercars will be built—and boy will they go fast. Less than 3 seconds to 60 mph, and a top speed above 200 mph.


Porsche 911

A rally-ready vintage Porsche 911, stuck in a sand trap but sill looking farther down the road.


Bentley EXP 100 GT Concept

The British ultrapremium carmaker turns 100 this year, and to celebrate it created this stunning concept. Meant to show where the brand might be in 15 years, the car is proposed to be all electric, optionally-autonomous, and quite gorgeous.


Rimac C Two

This Croatian carmaker is currently taking the hypercar market by storm with its fully legit, 258 mph, 1,888 horsepower electric beast. Look for 0-60 runs in the 1.85 second range—if you can see it at all.


McLaren F1

McLaren’s renowned F1 helped set the pace for modern supercars, offering stunning performance, including a 240 mph top speed, and a unique three-seat configuration, with the driver in the center.


Aston Martin Valhalla

This hybrid hypercar will use a twin-turbo V6 and dual electric motors to generate nearly 1,000 horsepower. It won’t start production until 2021—but it’s already sold out of its 500 copies.


W Motors Fenyr

W Motors is based in Dubai, where they have long desert roads that are best traversed at high speed. Hence the Fenyr Supersport, which should be able to cross the desert at 250 mph.


DMC Delorean

Film buffs might recognize this sports car. It was a time machine back then, and it still is now.


Bugatti Centodieci

The French hypercar maker unveiled its $10 million Centodieci, a 236-mph, 1,600-hp machine modeled after the company’s EB110 model from the 1990s. All those air inlets up front will be vital to cooling the 8-liter 16-cylinder engine.

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