Spyshots: future cars uncovered

Shorn of nearly all its disguise, this is our best glimpse yet of Chevrolet’s Camaro. We’ve snapped this front-engined, rear-wheel drive coupe cold weather testing with only light disguise around the...

This black bin sack on wheels is really a Peugeot 308 CC. With underpinnings and engines from the regular 308 hatchback, the CC is expected to be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2009, with...

Thought the BMW X6 crossover was a car too far? Brace yourself for more weirdness from the Bavarians, who are readying a strange 5-series-on-stilts niche model dubbed Progressive Activity Sedan for...

Land Rover is readying a series of new models using its latest V8 petrol engine – a motor that’s destined to power a whole generation of Landies, Range Rovers and Jaguars. Our scoop photographers...

Renault’s svelte Laguna Coupe looks set to survive into production relatively unscathed. The concept car we saw at last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show (inset) will spawn a sleek three-door fastback, if...

Hello hybrid. CAR Magazine has caught Mercedes’ first hybrid model testing in Scandinavia before a European launch in mid-2009. This is the S400 Hybrid, and our spy shot under the big limo’s bonnet...

Mini’s new SUV is still a year away and we’re left having to speculate at how the new fun-sized 4x4 will look. This is one of the more credible artist’s impressions we’ve seen – showing a jacked-up...

Volvo will launch its long-awaited XC60 this spring – a baby brother to the successful XC90 4x4. Our spies have snared prototypes on final winter shakedown on home turf in Sweden, just weeks ahead of...

The new Mini cabriolet isn’t due until 2009, but CAR has spotted it out on test again – and this time the disguise is much thinner. It’s not exactly a surprise new model, but Mini has still remained...

The pace of change is gathering momentum at Lotus. On Thursday we brought you the world’s first scoop shot of the new Eagle 2+2, today we have the latest pictures of the Esprit replacement. Lotus will...

Volkswagen is about to launch a slew of small crossovers – led by the Audi Q1, Skoda Yeti and VW Polo SUV. The joint Cayenne/Touareg/Q7 project has been seen as a success, so the Germans are repeating...

Lotus will launch its first all-new model for 13 years this summer – and this spyshot is the first glimpse of it. Codenamed Eagle, it’s the first 2+2 from Lotus since the Eclat and Excel. We won’t see...

Venturing onto the roads (and frozen lakes) for the first time is Aston Martin’s new Rapide. CAR Online has caught the five-door, four-seat car cold weather testing in Scandinavia, and our spy...

Aston Martin will launch a Volante convertible version of the DBS supercar this autumn, CAR Online can reveal.  We’ve snared this prototype cold-weather testing in Scandinavia – and it’s clearly the...

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I spotted not one but TWO Ferrari 599 GTBs in this carpark in Hong Kong. The one under covers is black.

With Audi and Mercedes launching new family execs in the past 12 months, time has come for BMW to spruce up the 3-series. CAR has spotted  the facelifted car testing around Munich, with a typically...

The production-ready Dodge Challenger is on the prowl, and CAR has caught it undisguised for the first time. The official launch is at next month’s Chicago Auto Show, and it’s almost a carbon copy of...

Volkswagen’s facelifted Touran has barely been out a year, but CAR has already spied the replacement car testing in Germany. The new car is being rushed in because the current Touran - and the Mk5...

Rolls-Royce might not sell millions of cars a year, but in its own way the company is a big success story. In 2007 Rolls shifted 1010 cars, up 25 percent compared to 2006, and way ahead of Maybach.

CAR Online was yesterday granted an interview with KTM Sportcars managing director Michael Landl who revealed that the Austrian firm, buoyed by the strong pre-orders for its £37,000 X-Bow track car,...

Under all that weird metalwork is the new Crossman, a name recently let slip by a Mini official. This is Mini’s new SUV, or rather SAV as the Brit-based company prefers to think of its latest car as a...

The muscle car wars are set to reignite. Ford’s Mustang is here, Dodge recently released teaser photos of its Challenger SRT-8, and now CAR Online has caught not one but two Chevrolet Camaros out in...

BMW has started testing its new baby Rolls-Royce – and our spies were on hand to capture the moment this mule took to the roads around Munich. Size is relative, of course; this might be the smallest...

Porsche's new hybrids - the Panamera saloon and Cayenne off-roader - will achieve comfortably more than 30mpg, the company revealed today. Porsche's first petrol-electric car will be the Cayenne...

Ford’s imminent Fiesta launch will be the marque’s most important small car to date. This one isn’t just aimed at European small-car fans – it’s going global, with sales penned in for the Far East and...

The next round of post-Bangle BMWs is well under way – and now we’ve caught the first new 5-series prototypes out on test. Under the swathes of black cladding, riveted dummy panels and false grilles...

Volkswagen will bring back the Scirocco name in 2008 with this sporty Golf-based three-door. Although the Scirocco won't be unveiled until the Geneva Motor Show in March, we've already snapped the...

Ford's new Fiesta will get Martin Smith's kinetic design language, so it'll finally have the looks to match its handling. The rakishly styled hatch will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March...

Fiat will reveal a passenger version of its all-new Fiorino van next summer. The Fiorino Panorama will be a five-seater and tap into the popular van-based MPV market currently dominated in Britain by...

CAR Online has captured on video the long-delayed Noble M15. In its first test, the matt black mule sported a longitudinally mounted Volvo twin turbo V8 and was driven at very high speed on track by...

CAR Online has caught the long-delayed Noble M15 on video. In its first test, the matt black mule sported a longitudinally mounted Volvo twin turbo V8 and was driven at very high speed on a track by...

Excess all areas! Range Rover Sport not big enough for you? Then how about the new, bigger, more powerful (not to mention dirtier) new 5.0-litre V8. Land Rover engineers have been spotted testing a...

No sooner has Jaguar launched the XF than it’s readying its next new car: the XJ limo. CAR Online has grabbed the first spyshots of this engineering mule, caught as it ventured out near the company’s...

Audi is sprucing up its A3 range in line with the new arrival in the family, the soft-top cabriolet. And that means it gets the latest styling flourishes from Ingolstadt – including the ‘get outta my...

Audi is preparing a slew of almost a dozen new models over the next eighteen months – headlined by a new twin-turbo diesel-powered TT – and we’ve got lowdown on these key models that will, Audi hopes,...