2008 Future & Concept Cars

From the outside, the next Mini will look remarkably similar to the one now plying U.S. roads. The cabin, however, will boast a cleaner, more user-friendly design, and the Chrysler-derived engines will be replaced by new turbocharged powerplants developed in c... more

Volkswagen calls the Concept A "the child of a new era," but we think a more likely parent has to be the Hyundai HCD-9 Talus Concept shown at January's Detroit show. Both feature all-wheel drive, suicide rear half-doors, huge wheels, and styling that blurs the... more

See a sneak peek of the upcoming 2008 BMW X3 Hybrid SUV... more

The Tahoe hybrid was, in many ways, GM's biggest news at the 2006 Detroit Show, because this is the first time that anyone has taken a true hybrid system--co-developed with BMW and DaimlerChrysler--and applied it to a full-size truck. The so-called two-mode sy... more

Audi has confirmed that the Roadjet concept shown at the 2006 Detroit auto show will be sold in Europe soon, but stateside sales are unlikely. In the U.S., expect to see the Q5, a crossover that's more SUV-like, which will better suit American tastes. The Q5 w... more

Attention hip-hop stars, professional athletes, and fat-wallet extroverts of all stripes: The new Cadillac Escalade is here. And to go along with your diamond-studded earth shoes, the Cadillac Escalade will go hybrid in the 2008 model year, along with the Chev... more

The Subaru B5-TPH is a stylish coupe/wagon/crossover concept that Subaru stresses is not the next Impreza. Its main focus is not the exterior styling so much as Subaru's Turbo Parallel Hybrid (TPH) powertrain, which is linked to the company's trademark symmetr... more

Honda's first turbocharged engine debuts in....an SUV.... more

We loves us some wagons. Especially weird, two-door Swedish wagons. Which, of course, means that we have all kinds of affection for the old Volvo P1800ES: it was definitely Swedish, and it was definitely weird. So when we learned that Volvo would be employing... more

Pronounced "Mark S," it's a potential flagship for Ford's stuck-in-the-doldrums prestige brand. It isn't yet officially headed for the assembly line, but a production MKS likely will be built on Volvo's versatile P2 architecture, some form of which underpins t... more

We've driven the new G37 Coupe -- see the Related Links below to read the full story!... more

At the 2006 Detroit auto show, Aston Martin stunned the gathered crowd with a breathtakingly beautiful four-door styling exercise called the Rapide. Named for the legendary late-1930s Lagonda flagship engineered byW. O. Bentley, the Rapide is the second fou... more

Most show cars are prima donnas: dressed to kill, yet structurally, mechanically, and electronically frail to the bone. They spew water and oil when facing the mildest incline, they threaten to break apart at the mere sight of a pothole, and they love to die a... more

It's Friday afternoon, our appointment with the Chevrolet Camaro concept car is at hand, and the gray clouds hanging over Milford, Michigan, don't look like they're going to disappear anytime soon. As we head east on I-96 toward the Milford exit, a few splatte... more

Expect Toyota to get edgier with its next-generation Corolla, hitting showrooms in 2007.... more

Based on the new 2006 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the Bluetec Hybrid uses what the company claims to be the "cleanest diesel in the world." A process called Selective Catalytic Reduction--literally the use of urea (that's urine to you and me) injected into the exha... more

Nissan gave the world a big glimpse of its keenly anticipated 2008 Skyline GT-R with this carefully constructed show car. The GT-R PROTO is not a near-production model, though, as the interior is just a blank black panel, and Nissan is providing absolutely no... more

The Sports 4 concept, which is nominally based on the Honda Accord platform, foretells a new four-wheel-drive sport sedan and also showcases a possible new direction for Honda styling, which the company calls "Keen Edge Dynamics." The front end reminds us of t... more

X is Roman for ten. But we'd like to think it denotes and X rating--for the meanest, rawest Evo ever made. This future rally rocket was accurately previewed by the Concept X from last year's Tokyo auto show (shown here), but the street car won't get its LED he... more

General Motors's plans for a rear-drive Buick Velite sedan, convertible, or anything else are officially dead.... more