Concept Cars

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...

We've reached the end of the teaser campaign for the new JX Concept. The full unveiling will happen this evening at Pebble Beach. A teaser sketch was revealed in April, and has been followed with seven teasers. Styled as a new seven-seat luxury crossover, the 2013 Infiniti JX is part of the "Power...

The 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show is still more than a month away but in its lead up Ford has announced today that it will be making no less than four global debuts at the German show, including the reveal of a major new design concept. So far, all we have is this teaser image which gives away few...

BMW is working on a whole new range of eco-focused models falling under its recently established i brand, with everything from electric scooters to plug-in hybrid supercars planned. The first of these is to be an electric minicar called the i3, a car many of you will recognize as the long-awaited...

We’ve been reporting about BMW’s first production electric car for the past couple of years, but apart from an ambiguous teaser image there’s been few details released for BMW’s mysterious Megacity Vehicle, the carbon fiber infused i3. Well, all that has changed now as the...

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...

Though it isn’t set to go on sale until the end of the year, the new 2012 Honda CR-V crossover has been previewed in concept form and it’s safe to say the upcoming production version will closely resemble the lines seen here today. It looks as though we’ll get a fairly...

The concept version of BMW's entry into the 2012 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) series, based loosely on the current E92 M3, was just revealed to the world last week. Today, the company released a new passel of photos via Facebook. Included among the shots of the car is a hint at the...

As legend has it, a brazen, determined tractor builder named Ferruccio Lamborghini once called upon Enzo himself to discuss a clutch problem with his Ferrari. Enzo dismissed him outright, indicating that he should stick to driving tractors. Lamborghini left determined to show exactly what he knew...

With Saab recently announcing plans for a trio of new models including a new 9-6X crossover, images of a stillborn 9-6 concept vehicle from the earlier part of the last decade have now hit the web and reveal just how far GM’s badge-engineering plans for the Swedish automaker went. But...

The Chevy Volt got a bad rap when it finally reached retail, after a few outlets got in a tizzy about the onboard engine actually contributing some power to the wheels under certain circumstances. Despite the confusion and misinformation that followed, the underlying range-extended electric vehicle...

Roaring around with 408 horsepower, all-wheel drive, and two doors, the Audi Quattro Concept has already been tipped for production. The green light could come as early as this summer. According to Inside Line, the bosses at Quattro are "optimistic" about the car's chances. If it does get the...

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...

Though it wasn't the first, Toyota has become the biggest brand in the hybrid world. So far, those hybrids haven't been all that exciting. The GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept II hopes to change that. You might remember (or guess from the name) that there was a previous Sports Hybrid Concept. Based on...

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...

Daimler's Maybach brand is potentially on the chopping block as of July 1, but reports out of the U.K. are hinting that it may just survive the inquisition. The first of the rumored Aston Martin-Maybach co-designed cars is said to be due at Frankfurt this September. Obviously, if Maybach is to get...

Audi showcased its e-tron Spyder concept the day before winning this year's 79th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The diesel-electric plug-in hybrid roadster was first shown to the public at the 2010 Paris Auto Show but was brought out again for the demonstration drive called “Le Mans vers...

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...