Concept Cars

On Monday, everyone was talking about the Clint Eastwood and Chrysler 300 Super Bowl ad where the Gran Torino star showed Christian Bale how to really do a Batman voice. But that ad, and others, did not reach as many eyeballs as the video of the Cadillac ATS being slung ...    Read more

Pass around the "It's-a-Boy!" cigars: The world-conquering Godzilla (also known as the Nissan GT-R, or simply, The GT-R) will soon have a baby brother. Or cousin. We're not entirely sure how the relation works out. What's important, though, is that the Nissan performance family is expanding with the launch ...    Read more

For various reasons or another, automotive enthusiasts and journalists have always been enamored with wagons. So aside from the glitz, glamour, and free liquor of the Geneva Auto Show in March, they now have another reason to go: to see the Jaguar XF wagon in person. The XF “Sportbrake,” in charming ...    Read more

We've known for a while that BMW would begin making a slew of electric vehicles under its new "i" brand. The compact BMW i3 hatchback and ...    Read more

Updated: Check out the full photo gallery below. Jeep paraded out its latest Grand Cherokee "production-intent" concept today at the Houston Auto Show and is letting fans of the off-roading brand name it. The "Name My Ride" contest, as dubbed by Jeep, will give consumers the responsibility of naming the new ...    Read more

At the Detroit Auto Show, Lincoln unveiled its MKZ concept, a lightly veiled version of the next car it will introduce. Critics say that, like the current version, it is a Ford Fusion with some wood and leather seats. Some even consider it ...    Read more

The mini Mini is no more. It's a curious time we live in when a car named the "Mini" is large enough to have another car slot underneath it in size. But regardless of what corporate overlord BMW thinks of the Mini Cooper's (relatively) prodigious plump, it has quashed any ...    Read more

A few months back, we told you that BMW, the proclaimed brand of driver’s cars, was spoiling every loyal enthusiast’s whims when it started testing its ConnectedDrive Connect self-driving technology. Using ultrasound distance sensors, laser scanners, ...    Read more

Remember the movie Maximum Overdrive, the last movie anyone can link Emilio Estevez to before he coached the Mighty Ducks in the 1990s? If you don’t, here’s a recap: Cars communicate with one another to rampage against mankind. All of it is set to the soothing sounds of AC/DC. Automakers are ...    Read more

The Buick Enclave and its platform mate, the GMC Acadia, have been on sale since 2007 without much of a refresh. It appears that’s about to change. Spotted out in the wild for the first time, it appears the 2013 Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia are making way for extensive upgrades. ...    Read more

The name Toyota, in many Americans' minds, is also synonymous with hybrids thanks to the Toyota Prius. The automaker may now be looking to enter the growing segment of fuel efficient direct injection turbocharged engines as well. Turbocharged engines are nothing new, with automakers like Mitsubishi, Porsche, the late Saab (sob), ...    Read more

While the world’s automakers assemble in Chicago to show off their new cars and trucks, America’s finest maker of cars no has even driven yet will be sticking back at its Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters to unveil its Model X crossover. We don’t know anything more about it than it will ...    Read more

Porsche released an update on its expansion plan to break 200,000 units sold by 2018, specifically discussing its future model lineup. In 2010, the German automaker gave the green light to a smaller, all-new crossover SUV, the Porsche Cajun. And rumors were flying last year of a small, entry level ...    Read more

Yesterday we saw the front headlight (and some inexplicable floating orbs) of the Pininfarina Cambiano, the Italian design studio's sports sedan concept. And today, like a ransom note from a frustrated kidnapper, the company has released a second teaser—and it's just as pinkish as ever. This shot shows a view of ...    Read more

At the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon, the largest custom car show in Japan, Toyota plans to show a breathed-upon FT-86 with parts from Toyota Racing Development, as well as a diminutive supercharged iQ that in boxing parlance, tries to punch above its weight class. Yeah, because that’s one thing the iQ ...    Read more

Over the past few days, we've covered touchscreens, voice commands, head-up displays, applications, smartphone integration, and various other technologies featured at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But what does much of it come down to? The cloud. Technology in cars is finally at a point where it needs ...    Read more

Mass amounts of technology have made their way into cars, yet drivers are expected to keep our eyes on the road. It's as though you're taking a child trick-or-treating, yet you tell that child he or she can't have any of the day's candy conquests. But auto suppliers Delphi and Visteon ...    Read more

Pininfarina has a new object of desire to tantalize us with, and like only the best seductresses, it’s not going to reveal everything at once. The Cambiano—doesn’t that just slide off the tongue like a piece of caramel toffee? Say it a few times with me. Cambiano. Cambiano—is the famed Italian ...    Read more

If you were at Audi's 2012 Consumer Electronics Show display, you might think you were in Frankfurt instead of Las Vegas, as the predominant language spoken at the display was German. You might also wonder how Audi shifted its priorities into making CES its January venue of choice instead of ...    Read more

Infiniti did a strange, clever thing— while the motor presses are thumping out all the hoopla surrounding a major auto show, no less the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Infiniti released its own auto show teaser— for an electric concept to be unveiled in Geneva, a couple months ...    Read more

It isn't often we see cars here that were never meant to drive on our shores. But Kia Motors decided to bring over its Naimo concept that debuted at last May's Seoul auto show and 2012 Kia Ray EV micro car not to show us the U.S. needs more 60-horsepower ...    Read more

By 2015, General Motors estimates 78 percent of cell phone users will have smartphones. Why should that statistic matter to you? Because GM is designing its in-car software to work seamlessly with the next generation of wireless technology. Speaking about Cue, the new Cadillac infotainment system that will first be available ...    Read more

Ford today announced that it will open a new research lab in Silicon Valley, just outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. The facility, scheduled to open early this year, will not duplicate or replace work by Ford's global Research and Innovation teams, but will "develop and discover new technologies, ...    Read more

In perhaps the starkest sign of our economic troubles next to Ben Bernanke’s bar tab, Jaguar and Land Rover will forego the nation’s largest auto show in Detroit next week—but tiny Tamil transporter Tata will have a display. Specifically, it will show off Tata’s electric mobility concept, or Emo, which ...    Read more

Volvo threw a curveball here at Automotive.com. As we and other enthusiasts pined away for the Europe-only Volvo V70 diesel plug-in hybrid station wagon—to adamant denials to our repeated "is it coming here" queries—Volvo instead announced it will debut a gasoline-powered plug-in hybrid concept of its XC60 mid-sized crossover at ...    Read more