Monterey Car Week 2026: Top 5 Supercar and Hypercar Reveals
The greatest week of the year for high-value, high-power cars has come and gone. Here are the highlights.
Monterey Car Week 2026 has concluded, and not without the best part of a dozen reveals of supercars, hypercars, and road-going race cars.
While there were many great unveilings at the California Car Show, here are our five favourites from Monterey, in no particular order.
Gordon Murray Special Vehicles S1
The man who penned the McLaren F1 has unveiled the closest thing possible to a modern rebirth of the supercar icon, revealing the GMSV S1.
Based on the GMSV S1 LM from 2025 (itself a homage to the McLaren F1 GTR), the new S1 goes back to basics as a road-going version of the supercar, leaning heavily on the F1 for inspiration.
If you asked AI to create a modern McLaren F1, the GMSV S1 is what it’d look like, with its central bonnet duct, over-the-roof intake, split side windows, quad tail lights and four exhaust outlets.
As you’d expect, as the modern (unofficial) successor to the McLaren F1, there’s a V12 behind the driver, with this one being a Cosworth-developed 4.2-litre engine, developing up to 508kW and 500Nm – comparable to the F1’s 6.1-litre BMW-made V12, which pushed out 461kW and 650Nm.
Just 64 examples will be made, all of which feature a central driving position and a six-speed manual transmission, giving the driver as raw of an experience as possible.
McLaren McL 6GT
Bruce McLaren’s dream. That’s what McLaren says the creation of the McL 6GT embodies.
Back in July, McLaren revealed the M6GT, having continued the stillborn project first launched by founder Bruce in the late 1960s, when he dreamed of creating a road-going car with links to his racers.
The new McL 6GT is the realisation of that desire, and it’ll be reaching showrooms in 2028, complete with a carbon-fibre chassis, V8 engine and a manual transmission, the first in a McLaren since the F1.
Its design is unashamedly inspired by the M6GT, sitting low and wide like a CanAm racer, while the tail lights are in a ‘Racing Loop’ formation.
The number plate which Bruce had on his own personal M6GT road car has been transformed into a modern graphic, while the ‘Speedy Kiwi’ is on the fuel filler cap.
Performance details are yet to be disclosed, though it promises to be the most raw McLaren for decades, and that’s something worth celebrating.
Koenigsegg CCGT1
As reported last week, the Koenigsegg CCGT1 is a road-legal tribute to a racing project it was forced to abandon nearly two decades ago.
Based on the CC850, the CCGT1’s V8 is twin-turbocharged and runs a nine-speed transmission as standard, though customers can opt for the CC850's six-speed gated shifter instead.
Only the CC850's removable roof and doors carry over body-wise, with the rest built around a new aero package headlined by an active rear wing, which serves as much of a visual nod to the original CCGT as a functional one.
The CCGT1 leaves the factory road-ready, but buyers can add an optional track package, adding a carbon roll cage, HANS-compatible racing seats, fire suppression, a race exhaust, air jacks, track-tuned suspension and brakes, a second set of wheels and extra aero.
Just 70 examples will be built, and all of them were allocated to buyers ahead of its reveal.
Cadillac V-ONE
Technically not a real car yet, the Cadillac V-ONE is a concept study, based on the V-Series.R racer which has been taking on the IMSA and World Endurance Championships.
Co-developed by Cadillac Design, Cadillac Racing and chassis constructor Dallara, the V-ONE’s concept intention is to “deliver factory-level prototype performance and technology”.
Like the race car, power comes from a hybrid V8 engine, while its suspension, transmission and “select electronics” are also shared.
On the outside, the body design is carried across from the race car but with a new V-Series wheel design and updated dark-persona V-Series badging, as well as a hand-sprayed paint gradient from silver to deep navy.
The cockpit has been made especially for the concept, with custom UX and UI, bespoke materials, a serialised plaque on the door and driver-specific seat.
Though it may not reach the road, it’s likely to join a long list of Le Mans cars for private owners, such as the Ferrari 499P Modificata, Aston Martin, Valkyrie LM, and the one-off Porsche 963 RSP.
Defender Dakar
Last but not least, something a little bit different, with Land Rover choosing to turn the Dakar-winning Defender into a road car.
So far only unveiled as a 'design preview model', the Defender Dakar production vehicle is meant to serve as the road-legal version of the Defender D7X-R which won – you guessed it – the Dakar rally earlier this year.
Based around the Defender OCTA, the Dakar adds a wider track, greater ground clearance and tougher, rally-bred suspension to become the ultimate showroom-ready off-road beast.
Other additions include Bilstein dampers, forged 20-inch wheels and a 35-inch tyre setup, plus new drive modes such as Dune, Gravel and Flight Mode.
Defender has confirmed it’ll continue to be powered by the BMW-derived 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 engine, while it should be even faster than the OCTA thanks to its carbon fibre raised air intakes and carbon fibre bonnet.
Just four seats will be inside, complete with an optional racing seat belt harness and storage space for helmets.
