Someone stole a $22 million Koenigsegg from Monaco

Welcome to the first Rev Report.

Every week, this newsletter is where RevMag puts the best of what we've been covering — the cars, the stories, the moments from Monaco and beyond that deserve more than a scroll-past. No press release padding. No filler. Just the good stuff.

This week: a $22 million hypercar has gone missing from a Monaco garage and Interpol is involved. Pagani has officially arrived in the Principality — with Horacio himself holding the scissors. Lamborghini has built the most powerful open-top car on earth. And Range Rover has invented a floor that vibrates in time with your music.

Let's go.

— Jack

Here is the logistical problem at the heart of this story. If you steal a Porsche 911, you have a car that exists in many thousands of near-identical examples. Change the plates, repaint it, move on. If you steal a Koenigsegg One:1, you have acquired one of seven objects on earth that look exactly like that — clear carbon fibre, China Pink accents, a power-to-weight ratio of precisely one-to-one — and you have absolutely nowhere to put it.

Whoever allegedly took former Formula One driver Adrian Sutil's One:1 from his Monaco garage in January either did not think this through, or did not care. The car is now the subject of an international search involving Interpol. It has not been found. The alleged method of acquisition involved men claiming Wagner Group connections. An Elvis Presley Mercedes went with it.

There are places in the world where a Pagani fits so naturally it seems almost inevitable, and Monaco is unambiguously one of them. BPM Exclusive has opened Pagani of Monaco at 24 Avenue de Fontvieille — the Principality's first official showroom and after-sales service centre. Horacio Pagani was present in person. The debut car is a Huayra Codalunga Speedster, one of ten in existence. That Horacio cut the ribbon himself says everything about how this relationship was built.

Fifteen examples. 1,065 horsepower. A naturally aspirated 6.5-litre V12 revving to 9,250rpm, three electric motors, no roof. The Fenomeno Roadster produces 128 horsepower per litre without a single turbocharger — a figure that puts every boosted supercar in context. Zero to 62mph in 2.4 seconds. Top speed above 211mph. Priced at around $5.8 million. Already sold out. Of course it is.

The Range Rover SV Ultra has a floor that vibrates in time with the music. This is a feature. People will pay for it. Setting that aside: the Titan Silver paint is one of the most beautiful colours ever offered on a production car. The world-first electrostatic speaker system — 21 panels in the headrests and headlining — is a genuine engineering first. The rattan palm veneer interior is extraordinary. The floor still vibrates. We're not entirely over it.

The MCL-HY is a 707-horsepower hybrid prototype wearing searing papaya livery that nods to Bruce McLaren's Can-Am cars and points squarely at Ferrari's Le Mans dominance. McLaren last won Le Mans in 1995. An entire generation of racing fans has never seen it happen. That changes this summer.

Porsche Experience Centre Silverstone — full day GT3 track experience

If there is a better way to spend a weekday than a full day behind the wheel of a 911 GT3 at Silverstone with a Porsche instructor alongside you, we haven't found it. The Porsche Experience Centre programmes are the best manufacturer track experiences available in the UK — properly structured, on one of the world's great circuits. Worth every penny.

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Monaco GP week is coming. We'll have more on that soon.

— Jack Brodie

Editor-in-chief, RevMag