Concept Cars

The 2011 Audi Urban Concept will make its official world debut next month at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show but you can get a preview of it here in this official video.

The 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show is just around the corner, giving the world's press and gearheads all around the world a chance to glimpse into the future as carmakers unveil their latest concept vehicles. We're already looking forward to the 2014 BMW i3 urban electric car and i8 plug-in hybrid...

Auctions to benefit charities are common among the high-end car-loving crowd, and RM Auctions' Monterey event will host a pair of unique Ford concepts to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: the 2001 Thunderbird Sports Roadster Concept and the 2005 Shelby GR-1 Concept Platform Model...

While the production version of the FPV GT Concept doesn't get any serious performance mods, future models from the Ford tuner certainly may.

Land Rover is looking to target military buyers with its new-generation Defender, but for the project to be successful annual sales would need to reach at least 60,000 units.

With its introduction of the concepts for the BMW i3 and i8 this morning, BMW has launched in earnest its attempts to define a new brand, centered around themes that sound a bit like double-speak, but which really boil down to efficient driving with a bit of style. Terms like "sustainability,"...

Our colleague John Voelcker of GreenCarReports is on the scene for the unveiling of the new BMW i8 plug-in hybrid sports coupe and i3 electric city car in Frankfurt today, and he's sent us these live images from the event. Jump into the gallery for a more first-hand look at these slick new...

It's been 10 years since Volvo introduced the Safety Concept Car.

Lamborghini could be a whole different automaker today had this been its first car.

We had hoped the College of Creative Studies, Detroit would bring home the win for America in the 2011 Ferrari World Design Contest, as they had a promising design and were one of the handful of teams to make it to the final round--and the only one from America. But ultimately it was Seoul's Hongik...

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s report of a new high-performance division brand being considered by Volvo, comes this concept car that was unveiled late last week at the 2011 Australian auto show. Based on the Volvo S60 R-Design, the new concept car is called the S60 Performance Project and...

Today, the most exciting engine in Ford’s global lineup is not found in some high-priced Lincoln or a stylish Euro hatch. No, Ford’s most exciting engine can be found in a limited edition sports sedan sold in Australia by the local division’s in-house tuner Ford Performance...

Wicked awesome. That's how Local Motors (and much of the world) thinks of its first car, the Rally Fighter. In a new video from Translogic, CEO and co-founder Jay Rogers explains that when you open car design up to the masses, you're bound to get an overwhelming majority of amateurish rubbish (he...

Toyota is showing a second version of its mid-engined, MR-2 Spyder-based Sports Hybrid Concept at the 39th ADAC Zurich 24-hour Race at the Nurburgring.

In preparation for next year’s DTM touring car race series BMW will be unveiling a new concept car previewing its M3 DTM race car that will compete in the 2012 season (current M3 GT race car pictured). The German automaker is returning to the series after an 18 year hiatus but is keen to show...

For 60 years, the Unimog (Universal-Motor-Gerat), has been terrifying young children (and some grown men)--and Mercedes-Benz is proud of that feat. So proud, in fact, that the special trucks unit of the luxury automaker has presented a design study in celebration of 60 years of big, frightening...

It's hard to get too excited over Europe-only concepts for shows like Wörthersee, where the A1 clubsport quattro concept was unveiled this week. In this case, however, there's a taste of tanatlizing production car lying just beneath the surface. Which production car is that? Why, the RS1, of...

Though we’ve been talking about an RS1 high-performance minicar from Audi for more than year now, the strongest indication yet that we might one day see such a car came from the unveiling of the Audi A1 clubsport quattro Concept at this week’s Wörthersee Tour 2011 in Austria...

Nissan has announced that its Leaf Nismo RC Concept electric race car concept from the recent 2011 New York Auto Show will be making a demonstration run at the Le Mans Vers Le Futur, a support event for the 79th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Leaf Nismo RC was never meant to be a one-off...

Turns out this morning’s Skoda Fabia vRS 2000 Speedster isn’t the only convertible concept car scheduled to be unveiled this week at Austria’s Wörthersee Tour 2011. We now have the first images and details of a convertible version of the high-performance Golf R, which in...