you know the joke about MINI? if it ain’t small, it ain’t a MINI. nah. we just made that lame joke up. however big a MINI goes, it is still pretty small, but the MINI Clubman Concept that’s heading to Palexpo in Geneva next week has indeed grown in size.
Rinspeed is no stranger when it comes to outrageous concept cars and so, we are not entirely surprised by another, which will be gracing the prestigious motor show in its home turf next month. based on Tesla Model S, the Rinspeed XchangE Autonomous Concept, as it is called, is a today-looking car that is tech-packed with the intention…
the Nissan Frontier Diesel Runner Powered by Cummins is not your typical Mars rover-like concept vehicle, it is a project truck created to “test the waters”, so to speaker, to see how consumers will react to the next-generation Frontier.
while Mercedes-Benz uses satellite and various gizmos to predict the road ahead, French automaker Renault takes the ‘looking forward’ game up a notch by giving its Renault KWID Concept a quadcopter for, you know, actual surveillance of the traffic situation way ahead.
whoever says an off-road vehicle can’t look elegant? the Volkswagen Beetle Dune Concept Car, unveiled at last week’s Detroit Auto Show, proves that it can be done. this near-production example sports a shell of the modern Beetle that you are familiar with
coupe is no stranger to KIA, but the Koup hardly has the sports car look (it is just a two-door car and that’s that) and that’s not to mention the pretty standard performance you get with most KIA’s rides. that leaves the Korean automaker a void to fill by the KIA GT4 Stinger Concept you see here.
for those who fondly remembers Toyota’s iconic performance cars such as the 2000GT, Celica, MR2 and the Supra, the Toyota FT-1 Concept is your hope of renewing your love for high performance Japanese sports car. the “FT” here stands for “Future Toyota” which indicates that this ride is the
Infiniti is a brand that’s closely associated with luxury than performance. unlike other luxury marques, it practically has nothing to boast about when it comes serious performance like what the M rides and AMG has been doing for BMW and Mercedes-Benz, respectively.
the Volvo Concept XC Coupe you see here is the second of the three concept cars that the Swedish automaker will be introducing based on the firm’s new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA). at a glance, it does look a little like the Concept Coupe, albeit on a slightly ‘fuller’ side
these days, tech-heavy automobiles need not to wait till major auto shows to make their debut. you know why? because geeks love cars too – especially those rides that speaks high tech all over it, like this Audi Sport Quattro Laserlight Concept Car which will be rolling into the 2014 International CES next week.
plug-in hybrid, or electric vehicle for that matter, is still relying on the grid, which most likely generates electricity through burning of fossil fuel. not exactly the cleanest of the clean if you really look into where the source of electricity comes from.