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A Full-Size Wooden Bentley Continental GT Is Up for Sale on eBay

When it comes to Bentleys, we’ve seen everything from bespoke Mulliner one-offs to ultra-luxury coachbuilt projects. But this might just be the most unusual Continental GT ever to surface: a life-size wooden replica of Crewe’s grand tourer, painstakingly sculpted from teak and marine-grade plywood, is currently listed for sale in Florida.

The car—if you can call it that—originates from Belgium, though its creator remains anonymous. What is known is that it took over 3,000 hours and thousands of hand-crafted pieces to assemble, with everything mounted on two massive wooden beams serving as the chassis. The attention to detail is staggering: the oversized mesh grille, bumper intakes, quad exhaust outlets, and oval headlamp housings all mimic the 2017 Continental GT, the generation that inspired this rolling sculpture. To highlight contrast, those elements were finished in a darker shade than the body.

Open the exposed-hinge doors, and the wooden artistry continues. Inside, you’ll find a dashboard, center console, and door panels arranged like the real car’s, along with carved seats featuring Bentley’s signature diamond-quilted upholstery pattern—albeit in low-relief wooden form. It’s not plush leather, but the craftsmanship is undeniable.

Mechanically, there’s no W-12 or V-8 lurking beneath the sculpted hood, but this Bentley is not entirely static. Thanks to a steering rack and exposed gear linkage, it can actually roll and steer. With steel axles and acrylic windows being the only non-wooden parts, even the wheels and tires are carved from timber. The whole thing tips the scales at around 2,000 pounds (907 kg)—less than half the weight of a real GT.

Currently displayed at Autosport Group in Boca Raton, Florida, the wooden Bentley is parked alongside a lineup of used luxury cars. But unlike its drivable cousins, this one is destined for collectors who value conversation pieces over horsepower. The asking price on eBay? $98,900. That’s significantly less than a new Continental GT, but still a princely sum for a car that won’t ever leave tire marks on asphalt.

There are caveats, too: the listing admits to visible cracks in some glued joints and minor interior wear. But imperfections aside, it remains an astonishing feat of craftsmanship.

As YouTuber Austin Campbell remarked after seeing it in person, this isn’t about speed or performance—it’s about the spectacle. A Bentley made of wood may not roar down the highway, but it does turn heads in a way no W-12 ever could.

Source: Austin Campbell via YouTube

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Prodrive P25: A €800,000 Tribute to the Legendary Subaru 22B

A rare Prodrive P25 — a meticulously engineered tribute to the legendary Subaru Impreza 22B — has surfaced for sale, with an asking price exceeding €800,000.

Built by British motorsport powerhouse Prodrive, the P25 was unveiled in 2022 as a modern reinterpretation of the two-door Subaru Impreza WRX STI, paying homage to the coveted 22B STI that captured the hearts of enthusiasts in the late 1990s. Only 25 units were ever produced, making the P25 one of the rarest Subaru-based performance machines in existence.

Now, one of these 25 hand-built examples has appeared on the second-hand market with a staggering price tag of £700,000 (approximately €808,000). With just 306 kilometers on the odometer, the car is presented in near-factory condition and finished in the iconic Subaru World Rally blue.

Under the skin, the Prodrive P25 is far more than a nostalgic replica. It’s powered by a thoroughly reworked version of Subaru’s EJ25 2.5-liter turbocharged flat-four engine. Prodrive fitted forged pistons, steel con-rods, machined cylinder heads, variable valve timing, a Garrett turbocharger, bespoke air intake, and a high-performance intercooler. The result? A brutal 456 horsepower and 619 Nm of torque.

Power is sent to all four wheels via a 6-speed sequential gearbox paired with an AP Racing dual-plate clutch. Thanks to extensive use of carbon fiber — including the roof, hood, and side panels — the P25 weighs just 1,200 kg, around 45 kg lighter than the WRX STI it’s based on. This lightweight construction helps launch the car from 0 to 100 km/h in under three seconds — putting it in supercar territory.

With its blend of rally-bred engineering, ultra-limited production, and modern performance, the Prodrive P25 has firmly established itself as a collector’s gem. And judging by the asking price of this example, it’s clear that the market agrees.

Source: RaceCarsForYou

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1987 Ferrari Alcador by Franco Sbarro is for sale

In the early 2020s, the automotive world briefly lost its collective mind over open-top, windshield-less supercars. McLaren’s Elva, Aston Martin’s V12 Speedster, and Ferrari’s Monza SP1/SP2 sparked a short-lived but thrilling niche segment of radically impractical, eye-wateringly expensive speedsters. But nearly 30 years before these topless titans captivated collectors, one bold Ferrari owner—and an even bolder Swiss designer—did it first.

Meet the Ferrari Alcador, a wildly reimagined version of Maranello’s iconic 1980s wedge, stripped of convention, logic, and most notably, its windshield.

A Radical Reinvention of an ’80s Icon

The Ferrari Testarossa, with its wide hips, straked flanks, and quintessentially ’80s attitude, was a bedroom wall poster car for a generation. But by the mid-1990s, automotive tastes had shifted. The Testarossa’s brutalist lines were fading from favor, and one owner decided to give his example a radical new lease on life.

Enter Franco Sbarro, a Swiss designer renowned for his unhinged one-offs and prototype work. With his team, Sbarro took the Testarossa and tore up the rulebook. The chassis was shortened, a curved underbody was grafted on, and most controversially, the windshield was deleted entirely. Not shortened. Not replaced with a race-style aero screen. Simply gone.

Instead, two thick roll-over bars—reminiscent of industrial scaffolding—were mounted behind the driver and passenger, cleverly designed to double as aerodynamic channels. These directed airflow from the headlight inlets rearwards, bypassing the cabin and adding visual drama in the process.

Doors That Scissor, Seats That Don’t Move

The modifications didn’t stop there. Scissor doors—something no Ferrari of the era featured—were bolted on. The cockpit was radically reworked: the dials were relocated to the center console, and the seats were fixed directly to the chassis, much like today’s hypercars from Pagani or Koenigsegg.

Power came from the same 4.9-liter flat-12 as the stock Testarossa, producing 390 horsepower and mated to a five-speed gated manual. While mechanically unchanged, the car’s visual transformation turned it into something closer to a cyberpunk speedboat than a traditional Ferrari.

Even the side profile, with its sharp creases and dramatic cutaways, seems eerily prescient of modern minimalist hypercars like the McLaren Elva or even the Lamborghini Essenza SCV12. Sbarro may have been dismissed as eccentric in the ’90s, but there’s no denying he was ahead of his time.

Three Built. One Road-Legal.

Only three examples of this Ferrari Alcador were ever made, but just one received road registration—making it perhaps the most exclusive (and road-legal) open Ferrari you’ve never heard of.

Now, nearly 30 years after its Geneva debut in 1995, that very car is up for sale in Germany. The price? Available only upon request, of course.

While it may never be as famous as Ferrari’s own Monza SP1 or Aston’s V12 Speedster, the Alcador stands as proof that good ideas sometimes come a few decades too early. It’s a fascinating time capsule from the future—dreamt up in the past.

Source: Thiesen Automobile