Future Vehicles

The SWINCAR e-Spider is a fully electric, tilting all-terrain vehicle designed for extreme mobility. Its unique pendulum suspension keeps the driver level while each wheel moves independently across rocks, slopes, and uneven ground. 

Ford brass says the company remains committed to the V8 engine.

Yet, it only sells two models with eight cylinders.

The 2027 BMW 3 Series has been revealed and it’s basically the production version of its Neue Klasse EV concept that debuted in 2023.

Looks like the 2027 Toyota Highlander is going all-electric.

Toyota has decided to reinvent the Highlander as an all-electric SUV for the 2027 model year. This is assuredly a response to the Grand Highlander gobbling up sales that would have gone to its little brother. But one still wonders if this is the best play for Toyota to make.

Toyota has confirmed that its new supercar will soon debut and introduced a ticking clock to get everyone excited. But it’s hard not to be when this promises to be the most extreme performance vehicle the brand has ever offered to the general public. This is also the first time we’ve seen the car teased without camouflage, even if Toyota is still trying to hide the finer details.

The Sony Afeela is a strange proposition. It's offering luxury EV motoring at a price point that will put it right in the mix with Tesla and Lucid. It's using a partnership with Honda to help get on the road. It has obvious lidar sensors sticking out of the roof to help with autonomous driving. The light bar between the headlights allows owners to type a message. A mobile app can open the doors. And so on.

LOS ANGELES -- Electric-car maker Lucid has added a new trim level to its Gravity SUV lineup. The California-based luxury marque has come out with Touring trim for the Gravity.

LOS ANGELES -- Apologies to the late, great Paul Harvey for using his famous phrase, but it makes sense here. Kia teased the next Telluride's design earlier this month, and now we know, well, the rest of the story as it pertains to the 2027 Kia Telluride. Kia gave us the final details at the 2026 Los Angeles Auto Show.

One of the worst-kept product secrets has been the 2026 Jeep Recon. Jeep now has a fully electric off-roader.

Mazda has hauled the wraps off two concept cars, called the Vision X-Coupe Concept and Vision X-Compact Concept. Appearing at the Japan Mobility Show, they are a pair of studies which could point the company compass to a future design direction.

The world is short on sedans, especially luxury ones. It's a crossover-crazed planet and we're just living on it. But a new report suggests that the Infiniti Q50 is set to return.

The struggling automaker could use a hit.

Ford is teasing the next 2026 Taurus for international markets.

Ever since your author was but a wee tot, the hierarchy for Toyota and Lexus was simple -- Toyota was the mainstream brand and Lexus was the luxury flagship.

Enter Century -- what was once a model of Japanese-market luxury cars and limos will now become a flagship brand for Toyota. Even more luxurious than Lexus.

Stellantis plans to invest $13 billion in the United States and increase U.S. production by 50 percent.

The company claims that it's the largest in the 100-year history of Stellantis (and its predecessors like Fiat Chrysler).

Hyundai sees the U.S. as its largest growth opportunity and plans to produce more than 80% of U.S.-sold vehicles locally by 2030, up from roughly 40% today.

Tesla recently unveiled the new Model Y Performance, showing an updated electric SUV with 460 horsepower, two motors, and a 3.3-second 0-60 mph time. While impressive, it’s unclear if the new EV will help Tesla’s sliding sales in Europe, where the new Model Y debuted.

The 2026 Jeep Cherokee needed a change to better fight its competitors. Maybe that change would be a simplified powertrain lineup, nicer interior duds, a better transmission, or sexier styling. Instead, Jeep has taken a leap of faith by making the Cherokee its first hybrid.

And, at least for now, its hybrid only.

Ford gave up most cars in its lineup a while back, leaving only the Mustang on sale in the United States, but that may change in the future. Executive Chairman Bill Ford recently told Autocar that the company is “not as robust as we need to be” with smaller car offerings, saying that people will be “pleasantly surprised” by what’s in store.

Ford’s much-hyped Model T moment arrived earlier today. The automaker held an announcement event to reveal its plans for a $5 billion investment in American manufacturing, which it said would bring thousands of jobs and create a new Universal EV platform. Ford also announced a new four-door electric pickup truck with a surprising starting price.

The automaker from Korea will be serving an extra helping of kimchi on the Ioniq 6 when the N variant debuts later this year.

General Motors’ EV sales have grown significantly, with Chevrolet now gunning for Tesla’s top spot. Cadillac has announced a few new models in recent months, and the latest is the Optiq-V, a rowdier version of the brand’s Chevy Equinox EV-based SUV.

Volkswagen’s Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) has been delayed until later this decade, but the automaker is sharing new details on the upcoming architecture. The automaker recently outlined the platform’s engineering, saying that it could accommodate an internal combustion engine, though not in the way you probably expect.

BMW's pricing guide for the 2026 model year M3 has leaked online. A base-trimmed M3 looks like it’ll be setting buyers back $78,400. Meanwhile the M3 Competition and Competition xDrive will be priced at $82,600 and $87,700, respectively. That’s an increase of $1,700 across the board before factoring in destination fees or any dealer markups you might encounter. However, the cars appear to be mechanically unchanged.

Toyota announced a new version of the bZ4X a few days ago, changing its name and improving its range and drivetrain. The automaker also revealed the new bZ Woodland, which follows the Subaru Trailseeker as a larger, more rugged version of the brand’s sedate electric crossover.

Toyota sells a ton of RAV4s, with almost half a million of the SUVs hitting Americans’ driveways last year alone. It’s selling well despite its age, too, as it has been on sale since 2019 without a complete redesign. That said, Toyota is expected to release a refreshed RAV4 for the 2026 model year, and the automaker’s European arm recently gave us a quick teaser.

Rumors have been percolating that the next Mazda Miata might be an electric vehicle, or at least electrifed.

General Motors is touting its new design studio in the United Kingdom by also showing an electric Chevrolet Corvette concept.

The Nissan Leaf is a decent value and has a surprisingly useful interior, but it’s past the point of needing an update. Nissan is poised to do just that in 2026, with a new Leaf that will arrive as an SUV instead of the hatchback shape it’s sported for years..

The 2025 Volkswagen Jetta and Jetta GLI are refreshed, getting slightly updated styling, new available colors, and a lower pre-fees MSRP.

As far as saving the manuals goes, VW is taking one stick-shift away and leaving one available.

Despite an exodous by other makes, Volkswagen is sticking with the compact sedan segment – at least for the foreseeable future. Iterations of the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI will be unveiled early next week.

Volkswagen fans will be pleased to learn the German brand’s lineup for the 2025 model year will apparently be the freshest array of machines it’s had on sale in some spell.

Volkswagen has been teasing the Golf GTI Clubsport all month ahead of the planned reveal during Nürburgring 24 Hours. The endurance race will serve as the premiere of what’s likely to become the most powerful GTI VW has ever fielded. The bad news is that North America isn’t supposed to receive this particular vehicle. But the good news is that some of its equipment is likely to migrate over to the standard GTI that’s still sold in the United States for the 2025 model year.

General Motors president Mark Reuss threw some shade at the all-electric Ford “Mustang” Mach-E by suggesting an electrified Chevrolet Camaro would not go the crossover route if he had his druthers. However, he still said such a vehicle would ideally seek to broaden the model’s appeal beyond the hardcore enthusiast base. In related news, Ford CEO Jim Farley recently hinted that there’s a Mustang sedan under consideration — noting that the nameplate would hopefully play host to a V8 powertrain for as long as possible.

If it weren’t for teaser shots about hotly anticipated models from different brands, car corners of the internet wouldn’t have much to talk about on some days. Fortunately, the news keeps rolling from Toyota, who’ve released a telling photo of the upcoming 4Runner – along with a suggested release date.

In a California two-fer, electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian rolled out a pair of new EVs today, both of which have deep familial resemblances and a host of appeal to overlanders.

Despite having been quoted as confirming the BMW M5 Touring for North America, Domagoj Dukec has just recanted. Earlier statements from the brand’s design head stipulating that our market would have access to both the sedan and wagon versions of the M5 have been taken back — leaving everyone following the story more than a little perplexed.

I'll admit, I struggled for a headline for this one. Press releases are, across the board, buzzword-heavy, and that's never more true than when it comes to concept cars.

It makes sense -- concept cars have less in the way of concrete specs to discuss than production cars do. And it certainly applies to the Chrysler Halcyon Concept.

Earlier this week, Matt wrote about Dodge's take on how American muscle will evolve as cars become more electrified.

We saw a teaser image of the Toyota Tacoma last week, and now there are two more images -- one of which teases the release date.

Hyundai Motor Group – which includes Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis – has announced a comprehensive plan for its products from 2025 onward with the key components being perpetual connectivity, subscriptions, and software-defined automobiles. It sounds benign but actually represents a major shift in the way the company operates by calling for widespread platform standardization and leaning into novel revenue streams reliant on vehicles existing on its corporate network.

Following Citroën’s preview of its new logo, there was a healthy buzz around the foreshadowed concept model that would first wear the badge. As French automakers are known for going against the grain, occasionally resulting in some brilliant innovation, there was a level of genuine excitement that the brand would deliver something truly novel during a period where the industry seemed to be running out of ideas. 

The resulting vehicle turned out to be extremely innovative. However, it wasn’t quite the morale booster some of us had anticipated, because the concept isn’t designed for today’s world. Instead, Citroën delivered a vehicle that’s designed for a future existence where resources are unavailable and people have to make do with less of everything. Though that doesn’t mean some of the concepts included in the design aren’t absolutely brilliant.

General Motors has filed for four trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark office.

The trademarks are believed to be related to trim-level names for the upcoming Cadillac Celestiq EV.

It appears that Tim “The Toolman” Taylor has a product-planning position at Cadillac.

That’s because, apparently, someone decided that just what the Escalade needed was “more power.”

A lot more power.

Lincoln is promising three new fully-electric vehicles by 2025. Ford’s luxury arm took the wraps off of a concept previewing one of them last night.

The 2022 New York Auto Show isn’t the first major auto show to be held since COVID-19 shut the world down in March 2020 – Chicago had shows in 2021 and 2022, and Los Angeles was in its usual slot last year. And there was Motorbella in Detroit last summer.

Still, for whatever reason – the loosening of COVID restrictions, the fact it was the first New York show since COVID, the presence of NY-based journos who don’t deign to travel west of the Hudson for those other shows – there was a pre-show feeling that this was it. This would be the show that marked the return of normalcy. Not LA in 2021 or Chicago just a couple of months ago – no, it would be this one.

Hyundai’s Palisade separates itself from Kia’s Telluride, at least in terms of appearance, by being the more “urban”, stylistically speaking, of the two.

The former looks boxy and rugged, while the latter has curves that evoke urban luxury — at least to this author’s eye.*

The Kia Telluride looks more rugged and tough than it is. Well, Kia is changing that with updates for 2023.

Let’s say you run a car company that just launched a large SUV last year. Let’s say you feel, for whatever reason, that it needs more length.

What do you do? Well, you extend it, of course.

Another day, another teaser. Thankfully, this will all be over by tomorrow’s happy hour.

This time, it’s Chrysler. Which is showing the Airflow Concept.

Many a debut has been made in New York over the years. Add the 2023 Kia Niro to the list.

It’s “all-new” in Kia-speak, though at this juncture we don’t know if it’s a redesign or a refresh. We’re guessing the former, based on the marketing speak.

Like its platform-mate, the Kia Telluride, the Hyundai Palisade is going under the knife, with the results planned for show at the 2022 New York Auto Show on Wednesday.

It seems like just yesterday that Kia unveiled the Telluride three-row SUV. Now it’s apparently due for its first significant refresh.

As if the 2023 Honda HR-V hasn’t been teased enough. The wraps are finally off, yet we still know little about the mechanicals.

We reported on the leak of the Toyota GR Corolla yesterday, and as expected, the specs we reported on matched up.

Launching a new vehicle under embargo must be a stressful endeavor for all those who are involved on the OEM side.

Take the Toyota GR Corolla. The brand has been so careful to build up interest via teases, and has plans to take the wraps off tonight — and it all got spoiled by some careless management of the company’s consumer Web site.

A Lotus EV? If British electronics are involved, isn’t a Lotus EV going to be useful only as a paperweight?

I kid, I kid. Lotus, however, is dead serious — the Lotus Eletre is here, and the company calls it “the world’s first electric Hyper-SUV”.

Mark your calendars for three days from now, folks.

Not only is it payday for a lot of us working schlubs, but Carscoops reports it’s also the day we’ll see the Toyota GR Corolla — and that the car is slated for our shores.