Right this moment marks the ultimate day of Rétromobile Paris 2025. Held over 5 days on the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Rétromobile has been operating since 1976 and never solely kicks off the worldwide season of basic automotive reveals, concours occasions and auctions, however is a markedly extra demographic and conventional affair than high-rolling, owner-focused occasions like Monterey Automotive Week and the Villa d’Este Concorso d’Eleganza.
Renault Filante Document 2025 at Rétromobile
(Picture credit score: André Ferreira)
In lately of retro design and freighted references between heritage and modernity, Rétromobile serves as a high-quality alternative to enjoy historical past while additionally pointing to the longer term. Therefore there have been a number of producers with shows that bridged the hole between previous and new. Learn on to seek out our six favorite debuts and shows.
Bentley Velocity Six Continuation and Continental GTC
Bentley Velocity Six Continuation
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Bentley used the occasion to showcase the following stage of its Continuation collection. Following twelve hand-crafted Bentley 4½ Litre Supercharged ‘Blower’ Continuation fashions, the following mannequin to obtain the remedy is that this, the Velocity Six. Between 1928 and 1930, 182 examples of this racing automotive have been constructed and in 1929 and 1930, the mannequin gained the Le Mans 24 Hour race outright.
It’ll take ten months to construct every Continuation model, with Bentley drawing on a Velocity Six from its personal assortment, GU409, along with ‘Previous Quantity 3’, a works Velocity Six pushed within the 1930 Le Mans.
Bentley Continental GTC Velocity
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Alongside this blast from the previous would be the debut of the Continental GTC Velocity geared up with the most recent 782 PS ‘Extremely Efficiency Hybrid’ powertrain. Providing over 50 miles of pure electrical vary, the Velocity is essentially the most formidable mannequin within the Continental line-up, constructing on the precision and energy of the ‘normal’ automotive, which we sampled final June.
BentleyMotors.com, @BentleyMotors
AGTZ Twin Tail
AGTZ Twin Tail by La Squadra and Zagato
(Picture credit score: Zagato / La Squadra)
This time final 12 months we reported on the arrival of the AGTZ Twin Tail by La Squadra and Zagato, a coachbuilt version of 19 automobiles developed by Zagato and La Squadra. Paying homage to the 60s-era Alpine A220 racing automotive, the Twin Tail relies on Alpine’s soon-to-be-replaced sporting flagship, the superb A110.
AGTZ Twin Tail by La Squadra and Zagato
(Picture credit score: Zagato / La Squadra)
The 2 corporations selected this 12 months’s Rétromobile because the place to disclose the primary buyer automotive to be delivered. Fortunately for historical past, the proprietor of Fee #3 has embraced the retro spirit of the undertaking, specifying a customized color scheme based mostly on the 1969 Le Mans Race livery and distinctive wheels.
AGTZTwintail.com, @agtztwintail
Zagato.it, @zagato1919
LaSquadra.pl, @lasquadra__
DS Vehicles / 70 years of the DS
A recreation of the 1959 Citroën DS 19 ‘balloon automotive’ took pleasure of place on the DS Vehicles stand
(Picture credit score: André Ferreira)
DS Vehicles is making a giant play for the posh market from now onwards, pushing the youthful sibling of Citroën up into the automotive stratosphere the place it hopes to compete with the likes of Audi, Mercedes, Jaguar and much more elevated names. This 12 months we’ll see the arrival of the brand new DS No.8 and there’s a robust risk of extra to return.
Citroën DS at Rétromobile
(Picture credit score: André Ferreira)
The halls of Rétromobile 2025 performed host to a giant show marking the seventieth anniversary of the debut of the unique DS, 1955’s magnificent and modernist Citroën saloon. As a part of their stand, DS Vehicles recreated one of many automotive’s most notable moments, when it was displayed on a quartet of balloons as a option to spotlight the legendary hydropneumatic experience high quality.
Citroën DS at Rétromobile
(Picture credit score: André Ferreira)
This gimmick, created in 1959 by Citroën’s promoting director Claude Puech, made a welcome return. The DS 19 ‘balloon automotive’ was proven alongside an authentic 1969 DS 21 Pallas in addition to the forthcoming DS Vehicles N°8.
DSAutomobiles.co.uk, @DS_Automobiles
Renault Filante Document 2025
Renault Filante Document 2025
(Picture credit score: ©ADDITIVE, Renault Design)
Renault additionally paid homage to the previous through a future-facing machine. Alongside immaculate examples of the unique Renault 4 and Renault 5 – each arriving in modern-day EV kind this 12 months – the corporate showcased the Renault Filante Document 2025, a demonstrator and cheerleader for final electrical effectivity and vary.
Renault Filante Document 2025
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The Filante is lengthy and slim, with an everyday manufacturing 87 kWh battery at its coronary heart. All the things else could be very non-standard, for this ‘laboratory on wheels’ seats only one and weighs 1,000kg. It’s additionally a mighty 5.12m lengthy in an effort to improve its aerodynamic talents.
A Nineteen Seventies recreation of the 1925 40 CV “des Information”
(Picture credit score: Antoine Pascal)
The automotive’s precursors have been the Bluebird-esque Étoile Filante (the identify means ‘Capturing Star’) from 1945 and the 1925 40 CV “des Information”, a record-breaking endurance racer. This 12 months, the brand new Filante Document 2025 will likely be out and about attempting to push the envelope of EV effectivity.
An authentic Renault 4 and Renault 5 on present at Rétromobile
(Picture credit score: André Ferreira)
Renault.co.uk, @Renault_France
Kind 59 Bugatti Monograph
(Picture credit score: 110% Publishing)
Additionally making its debut on the Rétromobile was this bespoke new ebook from German-based 110% Publishing. Laid out by Tales of Tomorrow Studio, with industrial design by Marc Newson, the Kind 59 ebook is a radical, forensic and undeniably elegant set of three volumes devoted to probably the most iconic of all racing automobiles, the Thirties Bugatti Kind 59.
Over 920 pages, the three books characteristic illustration and pictures charting the design, growth, racing pedigree and subsequent historical past of this fabled automotive. Simply seven have been inbuilt racing spec, together with 4 belonging to Bugatti’s personal works crew.
Bugatti Kind 59 Monograph with case by Marc Newson
(Picture credit score: 110% Publishing)
Written by Bugatti historian Julius Kruta, the ebook is available in three completely different editions with 5 color combos, in addition to a bespoke aluminium slipcase and stand. It’s these latter two objects which were formed by Newson, a long-time automotive aficionado who additionally occurs to personal of one of many remaining Kind 59s.
Impressed by the structural body of the automotive itself, the complete package deal is elevated to the standing of artwork: the Kind 59 endures for its magnificence and mechanical precision, which have been somewhat extra profitable than its race file. As Kruta instructed Traditional Driver at an early level within the undertaking’s genesis, ‘It must be to the ebook world what the Kind 59 is to the Grand Prix world. It will likely be stunning and ineffective, one thing that no person can say doesn’t contact them.’
@TalesofTomorrow.Studio, @MarcNewsonOfficial
Touring Superleggera Veloce12
Touring Superleggera Veloce12 in Azzurro Cielo
(Picture credit score: Touring)
Touring Superleggera confirmed off a freshly completed model of their Veloce12, launched final summer time as a radical reinvention of the elegant Ferrari 550 Maranello. The brand new automotive is resplendent in Azzurro Cielo, a blue livery that harks again to Touring’s lengthy historical past of coachbuilding and which takes round 600 hours of labor to use.
TouringSuperleggera.eu, @TouringSuperleggera
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