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Not every hero needs boost, aero or an absurd price tag. The VW Lupo GTI earns its place the old-fashioned way, with light weight, a manual gearbox and the kind of honest character that makes even a short drive feel like you've pinched something special from a better era.

Seen now, the little Volkswagen has real pull. It's nostalgic in all the right ways, still attainable by modern standards, and pleasingly uncomplicated in a market that keeps confusing more with better. The Lupo GTI was never about swagger, which is precisely why it still gets under your skin.

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There is still something wonderfully excessive about a front-engined V12 Aston Martin. Long bonnet, huge power, zero interest in apologising for itself. The new Valen arrives with 850bhp and all the theatre that number ought to bring.

Better yet, it doesn't hide behind tidy good manners. The design is bold, awkward in places to some eyes no doubt, but alive for it, and that suits a car like this. An Aston halo car should stir the blood before a wheel has turned, and a V12 flagship with this much attitude still feels like a very good way to do it.

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Monterey has finally gone fully silk scarf. Singer has teamed up with Louis Vuitton for a new collaboration built around its idea of the Art of Travel, and the result is a Porsche-shaped serving of old-money glamour with just enough mischief to stop it feeling totally po-faced. Tasteful, tasteless, or somehow both at once, it doesn't pretend to be subtle.

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