WP_Post {#6861 +ID: 5201 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:47:19" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:47:19" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:embed {"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2rc6SsyoAc","type":"video","providerNameSlug":"youtube","responsive":true,"className":"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2rc6SsyoAc\n </div></figure>\n <!-- /wp:embed -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Some things about a concours cannot be photographed. The sound of a ten-litre aircraft V8 starting in a stone square. The pause before a Best of Show is announced. A street that has been closed to traffic and is suddenly full of people walking in the middle of it.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>The Lugano Elegance film exists for that, and it is worth treating as a premiere rather than an upload. It is the record of the weekend as it felt rather than as it was scheduled.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "The film" +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "the-film" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:48:46" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:48:46" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5201" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }
WP_Post {#6813 +ID: 5199 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:46:30" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:46:30" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Some partnerships appear once. Franciacorta ran through the whole of Lugano Elegance 2026.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>As official sparkling wine, Franciacorta was poured across eight hospitality moments, from the breakfasts to the Gala Dinner. That is not a placement; that is the texture of the weekend. Every toast, arrival and closing night carried it.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>It also arrived early. On 20 May, before the concours weekend began, the Franciacorta Festival brought forty-one producers to the Hotel Splendide Royal, giving guests and the city a full tasting of the region before a single car reached Piazza Riforma.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>And it ended with a name on an award. The Franciacorta Award was presented on stage on concours day, with a second given at the Gala Dinner. The 2026 award went to the 1972 Ferrari 365 GTC/4 "Beachcar", the doorless one-off built for the 1976 Geneva Motor Show, and a fair choice for a prize attached to pleasure.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "Franciacorta, from the first glass to the last award" +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "franciacorta-from-the-first-glass-to-the-last-award" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:46:31" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:46:31" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5199" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }
WP_Post {#6862 +ID: 5191 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:46:01" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:46:01" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:gallery {"linkTo":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped"><!-- wp:image {"id":5192,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/CHUBB-683x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5192"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5195,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_4549-683x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5195"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n <!-- /wp:gallery -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>For a partner, the question is rarely whether an event looks good. It is whether the event can be used.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Chubb, official insurance partner and a natural fit for a weekend built around rare and valuable motorcars, brought its Ticino-based brokers to Lugano for a midday aperitivo and had the Lugano Elegance Village to themselves.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>It is worth being plain about why this works. The Village is not a hospitality tent at the edge of a field. It sits inside the event, surrounded by the cars, in the middle of the city. Bringing a professional network into that setting does something a conference room cannot: it puts a business relationship in a place people actually want to be, and gives them something to talk about that is not business.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Chubb activated across all three days, present from the tour to the concours, and took part as drivers rather than only as sponsors, joining the tour in a car provided by Scuderia Classiche.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "Chubb, at midday, in the Village" +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "chubb-at-midday-in-the-village" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:46:02" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:46:02" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5191" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }
WP_Post {#6836 +ID: 5186 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:44:54" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:44:54" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:image {"id":5187,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC08715-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5187"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Via Nassa is Lugano's boutique street, and in 2026 two of the businesses on it stopped being backdrop and became part of the weekend.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>There were three activations in total. During the Via Nassa parade, Belotti presented a goodie bag to every car that passed. Läderach did the same. Then, the following day, Läderach was at the finish of the Junior Grand Prix, handing chocolate to each of the twenty children who had raced.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Small things, and that is rather the point. A concours can arrive in a city, occupy its squares for three days and leave without the city having taken part. What happened on Via Nassa was the opposite: local businesses choosing to meet the event where it stood, on their own street, in their own way.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "Läderach, Belotti, and a street that joined in" +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "laderach-belotti-and-a-street-that-joined-in" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:44:55" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:44:55" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5186" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }
WP_Post {#6866 +ID: 5175 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:43:51" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:43:51" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:gallery {"linkTo":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped"><!-- wp:image {"id":5176,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/EDTIED-01983-683x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5176"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5179,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/EDTIED-4510-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5179"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5182,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/EDTIED-09547-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5182"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n <!-- /wp:gallery -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Seven students from Franklin University took part in Lugano Elegance 2026 during their summer session, working across the three days of the event.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>They were not observers. They helped organise, and they greeted participants as they arrived, which is the first impression a collector forms of a concours and one of the harder jobs to do well. Someone has to know who is arriving, what they need, and how to make a person who has just driven a rare car across a border feel expected.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Franklin sits in Lugano, and the collaboration follows the same logic as the apprentices from the Centro Professionale Tecnico in Biasca and the Junior Judges: an event that takes place in a city should draw on the people studying in it.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "Seven students, three days" +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "seven-students-three-days" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:43:52" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:43:52" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5175" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }
WP_Post {#6863 +ID: 5150 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:40:59" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:40:59" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:image {"id":5151,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC01608-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5151"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Six classes, one Best of Show, one Car of Honour and a set of special awards. Behind each result is a story that long predates the weekend.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p><strong>Class 1, 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II.</strong></p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5154,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/7-1-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5154"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Chassis 165 GN was bodied in 1930 by Kellner of Paris, whose proprietor was later shot by the Germans and whose workshop was destroyed in the war. The car appeared in MGM's 1964 film <em>The Yellow Rolls-Royce</em>, then passed to Dr Nils-Erik Sundblad, in whose garage it sat undisturbed for forty-five years. Comparative study with the Kellner scholar François Vanaret suggests this body served as the design basis for the Kellner coachwork on the Bugatti Royale the following year. Its restoration took eight thousand hours across England and Italy.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p><strong>Class 2, 1952 Ferrari 212 Inter.</strong></p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5157,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/7-2-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5157"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>A one-off, and one of only thirty-four Ferraris ever bodied by Ghia. It took pride of place on the Ferrari stand at the 1952 Paris Salon, where the Argentine president Juan Perón bought it, months after Evita's death, and had the chassis number changed from 0233 EU to 0191 EL for import purposes. After his exile in 1955 it passed through several Argentine owners before returning to Europe. Restored to its original colours in 2024, it has since taken Best of Show at Cavallino Classic and a perfect hundred-point score at Pebble Beach.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p><strong>Class 3 and Best of Show, 1964 ATS 2500 GTS.</strong></p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5160,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/7-3-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5160"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>One of twelve cars built by the engineers who left Ferrari in 1961, and one of only two in alloy competition specification.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p><strong>Class 4, 1979 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II.</strong></p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5163,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/7-4-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5163"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Finished in Cardinal Red, this saloon has appeared twenty-five times at the BCCM in St Moritz between 1994 and 2018, twice carrying off honours in both Concours d'Élégance and Rally. Beneath the bonnet is the 6.75 litre V8 whose output Crewe famously declined to specify, describing it only as "adequate".</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p><strong>Class 5 and Rarissima, 2025 Alfa Romeo 8C Doppiacoda Zagato</strong>.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5166,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/7-5-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5166"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>A coachbuilt one-off, revisiting the double-bubble roofs and Kamm tails that defined Zagato's work with Alfa Romeo from the 1950s. Built on a 2009 8C already modified by Touring, acquired in 2022 and transformed by Zagato across two years of joint development. Presented at Villa d'Este in 2025.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p><strong>The special awards.</strong></p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p><em>Dolce Vita</em>, the <em>ATED Humanoid</em> award and the <em>Franciacorta</em> award all went to the 1972 Ferrari 365 GTC/4 "Beachcar", built as a standard Pininfarina coupé and transformed three years later by Willy Felber and Michelotti into a doorless two-seat beach car for the 1976 Geneva Motor Show. Fiat had pioneered the genre with the Jolly; applying it to a 4.4 litre Ferrari V12 was unprecedented, and never repeated.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5169,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/7-6-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5169"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p><em>Ultra Rare and Courageous</em> and <em>Most Photogenic</em> both went to the 1937 Squire with Corsica coachwork. Adrian Squire founded his firm at twenty-one intending to build the finest small sports car in the world, with a supercharged twin-cam Anzani engine and a chassis priced higher than a contemporary Bentley. Nine cars were completed before the company collapsed in 1936.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p><em>Young Timers Delight</em> went to the 1989 BMW E30 M3, the homologation special that became the most successful touring car of its decade. <em>Subtly Sensuous</em> went to the 1956 BMW 502, commissioned by Erich Schweizer of Thun, who asked Carrosserie Beutler for a body bearing no resemblance to a BMW; the coachwork alone cost 19,800 francs. It vanished between 1976 and the 1990s and was recovered in pieces. <em>Modern Classic</em> went to the 2010 Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, one of five hundred coupés.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "The 2026 winners, and how they got here" +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "the-2026-winners-and-how-they-got-here" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:42:16" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:42:16" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5150" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }
WP_Post {#6868 +ID: 5130 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:35:35" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:35:35" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:gallery {"linkTo":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped"><!-- wp:image {"id":5131,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC01690-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5131"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5146,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_3466-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5146"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5143,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC04402-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5143"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5140,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC01721-700x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5140"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5137,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC01715-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5137"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5134,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC01711-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5134"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n <!-- /wp:gallery -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>KRIT of Detroit built a few hundred cars between 1909 and 1914, and then stopped existing. The marque is a footnote. But it produced exactly one Racer, and that car came to Lugano in 2026 as Car of Honour, supported by PKB Private Bank.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Its history is not tidy, which is much of its appeal. The original four-cylinder was replaced at some point with a ten-litre Curtiss OXX-6 aircraft V8 dating from 1916, rated at a hundred horsepower and capable of pushing the car past 160 km/h. It was brought from America to the United Kingdom in 2005 in poor condition and underwent an eighteen-year restoration. It is not a museum piece. It still races at British circuits, Goodwood among them.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>It arrived in Lugano by transport from Scuderia Classiche and, across the concours, went out on parade three times.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>That is the part worth sitting with. A car built in 1911 running the streets of a modern European city, sharing tarmac with traffic lights and delivery vans, on roads that in some form existed when it was new. It was built for surfaces like these, more than a century ago, and it is still capable of them.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>PKB, a Lugano private bank founded in 1921, backed the car. There is a symmetry in that: an institution old enough to have been contemporary with the machine it chose to support, both still working.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "The oldest car on the field" +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "the-oldest-car-on-the-field" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:35:36" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:35:36" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5130" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }
WP_Post {#6860 +ID: 5113 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:33:13" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:33:13" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:gallery {"linkTo":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped"><!-- wp:image {"id":5114,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/ATS-2500GTS-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5114"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5126,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_4879-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5126"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5123,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC04174-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5123"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5120,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC02058-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5120"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5117,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC00147-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5117"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n <!-- /wp:gallery -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>In 1961, a group of engineers and managers walked out of Ferrari in the dispute that became known as the Palace Revolt. Among them were Carlo Chiti and Giotto Bizzarrini, two of the most consequential technical minds in Italian motoring. The following year, in Bologna, they founded ATS.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>What they built was remarkable and short-lived. The 2500 GTS carried alloy coachwork to a Franco Scaglione design and was among the first mid-engined road cars ever made, capable of nearly 160 miles per hour at a time when that number belonged to racing machinery. Twelve cars were completed in total before the company collapsed.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Chassis 2008 is the alloy-bodied competition specification, one of only two built to that standard. It came to Lugano from California, following a two-year restoration in Connecticut and an appearance at Villa d'Este in 2024.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>On 23 May, in Piazza Riforma, it was named Best of Show.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>The choice says something about what the M100 rewards. This was not the largest car on the field, nor the most decorated, nor the one with the longest unbroken ownership record. It was a car built by people who had just lost everything and were trying to prove a point, and it survived when the company that made it did not. Rarity alone does not win a concours. Rarity that means something does.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "Twelve were built. This one won." +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "twelve-were-built-this-one-won" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:33:14" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:33:14" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5113" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }
WP_Post {#6869 +ID: 5093 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:31:09" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:31:09" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:gallery {"linkTo":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped"><!-- wp:image {"id":5094,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC00457-683x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5094"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5109,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/EDTIED-3514-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5109"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5106,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/EDTIED-3385-683x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5106"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5103,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/EDTIED-3334-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5103"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5100,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/EDTIED-3333-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5100"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5097,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC02026-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5097"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n <!-- /wp:gallery -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Lugano Elegance has always been a weekend about cars and the people who care for them. In 2026, for the first time, some of those people were eight years old.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>The Junior Grand Prix, run in partnership with the International School of Ticino, brought twenty children between the ages of eight and twelve to the cobbles of Via Nassa on pedal go-karts. They raced the length of the street toward the LAC, on the same stones that hours earlier had carried pre-war coachwork, and the whole of Piazza Battaglini was closed off and given over to them and their families for the day.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>It was a full day, not a gesture. There was face painting. A local pizzeria set up and made lunch for the pilots. And when the racing finished, the medal ceremony was held on the main stage, the same one the concours itself uses, with a performance from a Lugano dance school before the medals were given out. Läderach was waiting at the end with a goodie bag of chocolate for every child who raced.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>The reasoning is the same one behind the Junior Judges programme and the apprentices from Biasca. A concours depends on people who know how to look at a car, and that knowledge has to be handed to someone. It starts earlier than most people assume.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>The children who raced on Via Nassa in 2026 will not remember the horsepower figures. They will remember that the street was closed for them.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "Twenty pilots on Via Nassa" +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "twenty-pilots-on-via-nassa" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:31:10" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:31:10" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5093" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }
WP_Post {#6925 +ID: 5082 +post_author: "5" +post_date: "2026-07-22 16:28:23" +post_date_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:28:23" +post_content: """ <!-- wp:gallery {"linkTo":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped"><!-- wp:image {"id":5083,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC01843-683x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5083"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5089,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/EDTIED-7150-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5089"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image -->\n \n <!-- wp:image {"id":5086,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->\n <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://luganoelegance.com/wp-content/uploads/EDTIED-00506-683x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5086"/></figure>\n <!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n <!-- /wp:gallery -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>At a concours d'elegance, judgement is a human act. A trained eye follows a wing line, weighs a chrome detail against the factory drawings, considers what a car has survived and what has been done to it since. It is a discipline built on taste, memory and argument, and it has never belonged to anything but people.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>In 2026, Lugano Elegance placed a machine among the judges. It was the first time any concours in the world had done so.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>The humanoid judge was developed by ATED, the Ticino association that has worked in innovation and digital transformation since 1971. It did not score on the M100, the hundred-point system used by the human panel, and it did not assess the cars on their appearance at all. Every entry's historical documentation was loaded into the system before the concours opened: the papers, the records, the written history that trails a car through its life. The machine read the archive rather than the bodywork, ranking what it found against its own set of variables.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Where a human judge begins with the object in front of them, this one began with the evidence behind it.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Its verdict was its own. No panel guided the decision, and no human judge overruled it. The ATED Humanoid award went to a 1972 Ferrari Beachcar.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Between assessments it moved through the field, and the field moved with it. It waved. It shook hands. Visitors who had come to Piazza Riforma for pre-war coachwork found themselves photographing something built this decade, and children who had walked past a Bugatti without a glance stopped dead in front of it.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Whether a machine can judge a motorcar is a question worth arguing about, which is rather the point. A concours is a conversation about what matters in an object: originality, history, the weight of the documents in the folder against the beauty of the thing itself. Putting a machine into that conversation does not settle it. It sharpens it.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n \n <!-- wp:paragraph -->\n <p>Lugano Elegance was the first concours to ask the question out loud.</p>\n <!-- /wp:paragraph --> """ +post_title: "A machine among the judges" +post_excerpt: "" +post_status: "publish" +comment_status: "closed" +ping_status: "closed" +post_password: "" +post_name: "a-machine-among-the-judges" +to_ping: "" +pinged: "" +post_modified: "2026-07-22 16:28:24" +post_modified_gmt: "2026-07-22 14:28:24" +post_content_filtered: "" +post_parent: 0 +guid: "https://luganoelegance.com/?p=5082" +menu_order: 0 +post_type: "post" +post_mime_type: "" +comment_count: "0" +filter: "raw" }