Miscellaneous Event Coverage

The 2013 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 will pace the 96th running of the Indianapolis 500 later this month, making it the 11th time a Corvette and 23rd time a Chevrolet have paced the Greatest Spectacle in Racing -- Indy records for a nameplate and an automaker. The 638-hp ZR1 will also ...    Read more

Mainstream  flying cars may not be too far off into the future, as Volkswagen's People's Choice Project suggests. More than 119,000 vehicle and technological ideas were submitted as part of the Chinese project, and while ...    Read more

We've already professed our love for the handsome Peugeot 208 hatchback, but it seems as if the French automaker's shapely B-segment car can transform into an equally attractive crossover. Case in point? The Urban Crossover Concept, which debuted this week at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show. Peugeot says the ...    Read more

Lotus arrived at this week's Beijing Motor Show with a special gift made for the Chinese, the Evora GTE China Limited Edition. That may not be the only thing up for grabs in the Chinese market, though, as reports are suggesting the British automaker is seeking a Chinese buyer. ...    Read more

HY-KERS Ferrari has been hard at work preparing the successor to the Enzo supercar and brought along the latest HY-KERS system to show the fruits of its labors. The HY-KERS system is mated to a mid-engine powertrain featuring a V-12 and dual-clutch gearbox. The system uses two electric motors: one ...    Read more

Buyers interested in the emerging super SUV class should take note: Eterniti is providing a first look at its upcoming Artemis SUV at the Beijing auto show this week. The London-based company is hard at work readying its super SUV, which it says will be on sale in the ...    Read more

The Bugatti Veyron L'Or Blanc was famous for two things, its $2.3 million price tag, and its intensive use of porcelain trim pieces. Bugatti has a new, one-off Grand Sport model that picks up where the L'Or Blanc left off, and it's called the ...    Read more

The new Cadillac XTS luxury sedan that debuted at this week's Beijing Motor Show has lost its lid. No, it's not a convertible, but a sedan with a capless fuel filler that should make pumping gas a bit easier. That's not the only big news surrounding the XTS though, as ...    Read more

Rolls-Royce is unveiling the Ghost Six Senses concept at the Beijing Motor Show this week, and the automaker claims the car is rather phenomenal. Literally. The Six Senses concept is designed to appeal to all of the traditional five senses (sight, taste, touch, sound, ...    Read more

Toyota is taking the wraps off three concepts at this week's Beijing Motor Show including one concept that previews a locally developed and made hybrid for China. Toyota president Akio Toyoda hopes the Yundong Shuangqing will make Chinese customers happy. "We ...    Read more

E-Bugster Concept Volkswagen’s E-Bugster concept loses its top at the Beijing auto show this week. The electric-powered roadster loses its removable hardtop from January’s Detroit auto show debut and previews a Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet model. The E-Bugster concept is powered by a 114-hp electric motor capable of a leisurely ...    Read more

Two years after unveiling the its first EN-V mobility concept vehicle, Chevrolet has taken the wraps off of the second-generation vehicle at this week's Beijing Motor Show, aptly called the EN-V 2.0. The most noticeable update to the EN-V 2.0 is the addition of a second set of wheels – the ...    Read more

Bentley's Beijing Motor Show announcements focused yet again on the brand's chief attributes of power and luxury. The automaker not only disclosed a slate of high-performance powertrains for its upcoming EXP 9 F sport utility vehicle, and announced a run of 60 special edition ...    Read more

Audi is looking to the future in China – and not just with its sales: this week at the Beijing auto show, it pulled the wraps off of its newest plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the A6 L e-tron Concept. Powering the A6 L e-tron Concept is a parallel hybrid system that ...    Read more

We were fairly sure that Nissan's global sedan concept released at the Beijing Auto Show, named the Sylphy, was going to preview a new model for the American market, but this new teaser video all but confirms it. The 2013 Nissan Sentra will look almost identical to the Sylphy concept ...    Read more

The Spice Girls have long since faded into the annals of late 20th Century pop culture. But Victoria Beckham has gone on to have a successful career with a bespoke fashion brand, and went on to win the Designer Brand of the Year award at the 2011 British Fashion Awards. ...    Read more

It looks like the wait may be finally over – feast your eyes on the first renderings of the new Rambo Lambo, the Urus SUV. Despite being scheduled to debut at the Beijing auto show in just a couple days, these images jumped the shark and hit the web ...    Read more

Although it's slated to debut next week at the Beijing show, Mercedes-Benz's Concept Style Concept has leaked before the big unveil. Take a good look, as it will preview the production version of the forthcoming CLA four-door coupe. The Concept Style Coupe shows what Mercedes' long-rumored "baby-CLS" will look like. According ...    Read more

What’s next from the Chinese-owned MG brand? A sports car, perhaps one in keeping with the spirit of the famed MGA or MGB? Nope. Try a crossover. The MG Icon CUV shown here in leaked sketches will apparently make its debut at the Beijing Auto Show next week. The MG name ...    Read more

The McLaren F1 was one of the most expensive cars ever built but, more importantly, it had the highest top speed of any production car to date. Street versions rarely surface for sale and race cars are even scarcer, but later in August the ex-GTC Gulf Team Davidoff 1997 ...    Read more

The BMW 3 Series is a classic example of a driver's car, but BMW will launch a passenger-oriented version of it at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show later this month. The car in question is the 3 Series Long Wheelbase, a stretched version of the company’s latest sport sedan. The playbook ...    Read more

Six-time Pikes Peak winner Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima has teamed up with the Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (Team APEV) to set a world record at Pikes Peak in an electric-powered racecar. Tajima has set two world records at Pikes Peak and was the first racer to ...    Read more

Jeep has released teasers for three concepts debuting at the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, starting March 31. This is the 46th year for the event, which will host the unveiling of six new concepts. The first concept is the Jeep Wrangler Apache. The Wrangler concept features wider fenders, ...    Read more

The humble hearse is about to get quite a bit less humble: Biemme Special Cars is set to unveil a hearse based on the ultra-expensive Rolls-Royce Phantom. Before we give you any details about the car we would ...    Read more

Ford pulled the wraps off the production-ready Tourneo Custom passenger van today and it looks just like the Tourneo Custom Concept previewed at the Geneva Motor Show a couple weeks ago. The Tourneo Custom is a light-duty passenger van ...    Read more