Concept Cars

This week began with the 2013 Ford F-150 shedding the camouflage that once covered the full-size light-duty truck's front-end. BMW's M branch, the performance wing of the German automaker, celebrated its 40th birthday on Wednesday and in honor of the milestone, we've compiled a list of the top five BMW ...    Read more

Aston Martin has carved out its own niche in today's automotive market thanks to its flagship vehicle, the DBS. While everyone loves a good supercar, their low ground clearance means they're not always practical in markets with poor road conditions, like China, Russia, and India. That's why Aston Martin has ...    Read more

Anatole "Tony" Lapine, the former design chief behind iconic Porsche vehicles like the 924, 944, and most notably, the 928, passed away at his home in Germany last week less than a month before his 82nd birthday. Lapine, seen above second to the left, over looks a new design with ...    Read more

Electric cars have been around for more than 100 years. But since they didn't receive much of the attention their internal combustion counterparts did, the electric car has had to play a fast game of catch-up. Minds from the best automotive and engineering companies in Germany have therefore partnered with the ...    Read more

Honda showed off the Concept C at Beijing this month, a large sedan that—like all concepts shown in China this year—was inspired by dragons, according to Honda. And Chinese people sure love their dragons, it seems. Question is, will the Americans love dragons as well? Lidded like a jack-o-lantern with ...    Read more

A teaser video for the Bugatti 16C Galibier four-door concept has just hit the internet, and while it already has thousands of clicks, don't be fooled as most of them have probably come from this office (we're believers). In what may be our best look, or certainly most dramatic one ...    Read more

Coda Automotive, which is currently in its infant stages as an automaker, told the Detroit News yesterday that it's working on an "entry-level" electric vehicle for the United States. It will build this EV in partnership with Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors. Coda boss Phil Murtaugh said the California-based start-up ...    Read more

China's annual international auto show, which rotates each year between Beijing and Shanghai, is a mixed bag of promise and a facade of decades-old technology hiding under fresh sheetmetal. China's auto market is still emerging, and the country doesn't always have the same sets of quality and crash standards of ...    Read more

There's an old auto industry proverb that goes something like this: Any press release you see from a German automaker in English, multiply its length by 10 to get the feel for how it originally read in German before an English-speaking PR team got its hands on it. For a ...    Read more

Our fellow reporters' lost looks echoed our own feelings as we stepped into the Mercedes-Benz Transmission LA event at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). While we were covering the latest automotive news deep with the confines of our offices, they had spent the day gunning ...    Read more

In possibly the only subtle thing Lamborghini has ever done, the company quietly previewed an SUV at the New York Auto Show for a select group of journalists; the rest of the world will get to look at it when it debuts at the Beijing Auto Show next Monday. And ...    Read more

Yesterday we posted about leaked images of the Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupe which will debut this evening at an avant garde art party at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and, in a few weeks, at the Beijing Auto Show. We were spot on in our speculation that the Mercedes ...    Read more

It's been a little while coming, but it appears Infiniti is finally set to make a serious run at German competitors Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Thanks to an interview with an anonymous source close to the Japanese automaker, the 2014 model year is shaping up as a busy one for Infiniti. ...    Read more

While it's still months away from becoming a reality to the general public, Jaguar has been busy developing, testing, and tuning its latest roadster: The all-new F-Type. Jaguar has said that the F-Type will be as vital to the brand as the 911 is to Porsche, and that it expects ...    Read more

In the days leading up to the Beijing Auto Show, Honda unveiled its business strategy for the Chinese market. It included the fact that the NSX is coming to China, the addition of three new hybrid models, and expanding production capacity at Dongfeng Honda (which builds the CR-V and the Civic). ...    Read more

Jaguar coyly teased us tantalized journalists at New York last week with fleeting glimpses of the forthcoming Jaguar F-Type, all with the crystal clear message: it's definitely happening. The company's smaller sports car will be even more "driver-focused" and responsive than legions of power-addicted XKRS-Ss. And this video teaser with ...    Read more

The Fisker Atlantic debuted last night in Big Apple ahead of the 2012 New York Auto Show, carrying with it the promise that it might be the first car the green automaker will produce en masse in the U.S. That promise might've been something of a white lie, though. "The ...    Read more

In a surprise move, today at the New York International Auto Show, Jaguar has announced it will be adding another two-seater sports car to its arsenal: the F-Type. The all-new F-Type is based off of the C-X16 concept shown off back in November at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show. ...    Read more

Land Rover has been selling SUVs here in the states for 25 years and is throwing a bash at the 2012 New York Auto Show to celebrate. The luxury SUV maker, in a reversal of the usual gift-giving, is giving back to its fans with the debut of two limited ...    Read more

Mazda today gave us our best look yet at how the next-generation Mazda6 will take shape. Currently on display at the 2012 New York Auto Show, the Mazda Takeri Concept is meant to give us a window to the 2014 Mazda6. The automaker's next generation midsize sedan will fully encompass ...    Read more

At long last, the Fisker Atlantic has made its official debut before the start of the 2012 New York Auto Show. Promising to bring concept car-like styling, new plug-in hybrid technology, and coachbuilt touches to the well-to-do masses, the Atlantic is intended to be Fisker's first foray into the world ...    Read more

What you're looking at right now is the BMW i8 Spyder concept, slated for its world introduction at the Beijing Auto Show at the end of April. But what BMW wants you to see is that despite tightening fuel economy regulations, high gas prices, and an uncertain future for our ...    Read more

Could Jeep finally be adding a diesel  and Wrangler-based pickup truck to its lineup in the near future? That may be the case as the Detroit-based automaker is showing off six vehicles, some that will be available to the public and some may not,  before and during the 46th Annual ...    Read more

We've already shown you the first three concept vehicles that will be shown off by Jeep at the 46th Annual Moab Easter Safari but here are the other three as promised. Jeep first released teaser images of a Mighty FC concept, J-12 concept, and the Jeep Wrangler Apache ...    Read more

In January, Lexus had a hot, California-designed concept scheduled to debut at the Detroit Auto Show. But a carefully planned teaser campaign to release images of the concept leading up to its debut was spoiled when an American magazine broke the embargo, spilling pictures onto the internet. Fortunately, Lexus had ...    Read more