Concept

A new generation of the Kia Soul is brewing, and judging by our spy shots the funky look we've grown accustomed to with past versions of the Kia compact crossover SUV will be retained. The boxy shape was first shown in 2006 on a Soul concept car and today is instantly recognisable as Kia's smallest...

As outrageous as the idea of a production car capable of returning a fuel economy as high as 261 mpg may sound, more reports have emerged confirming that such an ultra-frugal car is in fact in development and could be on the market as early as next year. We are, of course, talking about...

Ford will have its biggest stand ever at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, one spanning more than 34,400 square-feet.

The BMW i8 plug-in hybrid supercar is scheduled to go on sale in early 2014 and will be priced around the $200,000 mark.

The BMW i3 Concept weighs just 2,755 pounds and features a 167 horsepower electric motor driving its rear axle.

Believe it or not, the 2012 Volvo C30 hatchback is essentially a 10 year old design. Several years before the C30 hit the streets, Volvo revealed a striking concept called the Safety Concept Car (SCC) to the motoring press in 2001, previewing several new technologies that would eventually be seen...

The 2012 Honda CR-V is expected to make its official world debut this November at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show before going on sale shortly after.

The racing version of the M3 destined for DTM competition looks menacing in its sinister raw-carbon clothing.

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

Saab is working on a new 9-6X with its Chinese partners but this 'Saabaru' will remain forever as just a museum piece.

Volvo's next generation of range extenders show the potential for a peaceful co-existence between electric cars and their combustion counterparts.

Audi may be bringing the Quattro Concept to production, but we'll have to wait a few years to see it on the streets.

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...

With the unveiling of its FR-S Concept back at the 2011 New York Auto Show, Scion showed us that even models intended to be affordable can look quite exotic. Despite still being a concept, most of the FR-S show car’s lines are expected to transfer faithfully to the production 2012 Scion FR-S...

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.

The future of the struggling Maybach brand is expected to be determined by as early as next month, with two major possibilities reportedly on the cards--either drop the brand altogether or tie-up with another automaker, most likely Aston Martin, and jointly develop a successor to the lackluster 57...

An uncertain future for Maybach could hold a collaborative design with Aston Martin--or it could end in July.

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...

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...