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One of two major automotive Concours d'Elegance and supercar shows held in London last weekend, Salon Privé ran two events: the Chubb Insurance Concours d'Elegance and the Concours Masters Celebration of 70 Years of Porsche.

The Concours of Elegance (UK) is a more recent fixture on the British Automotive heritage calendar, having been first held in 2012, but it has established itself as one of the premier such events in the world in a very short time.​

Monterey Car Week is an auction venue like no other on the planet. Six major auctions occur during 72 hours, all within a few miles of each other, with a third of a billion dollars in sales. Here are the top 200 cars which caught our eye during the Monterey sales.

Jaguar Land Rover realizes that self-driving vehicles make people nervous. To counteract this problem, the company is experimenting with autonomous vehicles that can ogle people in the crosswalk. Trials of the idea are being undertaken now.

The Jaguar XF Sportbrake takes the goodness that is the XF sedan and makes it sexier with a wagon-styled rear. This not only adds beauty to the already good-looking XF, but it brings better dynamic balance to the car’s feel on the road.

Jaguar Land Rover Classic dropped a bombshell at the hyper-exclusive Quail Motorsports Gathering last Friday, announcing the production of electric-powered Classic E-Type Jaguars, and the provision of fully-reversible electric conversion services for existing Jaguar E-Type owners.

There are many elite automobile auctions in Europe each year, but few compare with Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale​. This year saw some exceptional cars and some remarkable bargains. We've picked out the very best on offer at Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale.

The Jaguar Vector Racing V20E has broken the British and world electric speed records for a battery-powered boat, making an average speed of 88.61 mph (142.6 km/h) over two legs of the 1-km (0.62-mi) course on Coniston Water in northern England.

The F-Pace is Jaguar's best-selling vehicle and arguably the sexiest, sportiest SUV on the road. In other words, it's begging for a range-topping SVR performance model. Jaguar realizes this as well as anyone and it's added the all-new 550-hp F-Pace SVR at the 2018 New York Auto Show.

​While Uber's self driving ambitions have hit a bit of a roadblock, others are pressing ahead with efforts to get autonomous vehicles into action. Waymo has teamed up with Jaguar Land Rover to put 20,000 newly designed self-driving cars on the road over the next few years.

​After first flagging a move into the EV space with 2016's I-Pace Concept, Jaguar has now made good on that promise with the official reveal of its first all-electric production car. The I-Pace SUV boasts a long range and impressive fast-charging numbers to keep time-poor owners on the move.

Rétromobile has been running since 1976, when the most expensive car in the world cost less than $100,000 and long before the term retro had become fashionable. It is one of those places where auctions truly can throw up some remarkable objets d'automotive art. This year it did not disappoint.