Spyshots: future cars uncovered

World exclusive: leaked images of Audi A1, A7 and R8 Spider CAR Online has landed the scoop of the year with these leaked design sketches obtained by our European editor Georg Kacher. Click on the...

Porsche Panamera: the disguise continues to fall off Yes, we're barely batting an eyelid round these parts when a new scoop of the Panamera drops into our inbox, so frequent are sightings of the big...

2007: the year Renault went product crazy The new Twingo is the beginning of the most ambitious model offensive in the history of Renault. The future product strategy of the biggest French car maker...

What on earth is that? It’s VW becoming adventurous. These spy shots, taken in California, capture next year’s Scirocco coupe testing on public roads for the first time. The car is a long-awaited...

Another 4x4 from BMW? Yes, and the arrival of the new X6 means the Bavarian manufacturer will soon have a three-strong line up of 4x4s. Not that any of them are mud-tackling 4x4s in the truest sense,...

New Jaguar sir? Suits you, sir CAR Online certainly hopes so, and that the new XF will finally allow Jaguar to shed its pipe and slippers image. These are the most revealing shots yet of one of the...

Porsche Panamera: the latest news We're still two years away from seeing the Panamera in showrooms, but you wouldn't think so from the number of times Porsche's first front-engined, four-seater saloon...

What’s this, a hot version of the most exciting small car of the year? Oh yes, and here at CAR Online we can’t get enough of the Fiat 500. You can read our first drive of the most exciting small car...

Ferrari F430 CS: the lowdown Ferrari is about to take the fight to homegrown rival Lamborghini's front door. This autumn it will unveil a hardcore F430 derivative as a riposte to the upstart Gallardo...

Audi Q5: the lowdown Porsche and Audi are becoming joined at the hip, it seems. Last month CAR Online revealed that the two car makers would co-develop the next-generation Boxster and R4 sports cars -...

Jaguar X-type: the facelift Two-thousand-and-one seems a very long time ago now... The Millennium celebrations were slowly receding, George Bush junior stepped up to the presidential plate and Jaguar...

Subaru Impreza STi caught on camera We've already published our artist's impressions of the new Subaru Impreza STi - and now our man with the long lens in Germany has snared the first shots of the...

Porsche 911 GT2: the lowdown It's a fittingly epic backdrop for one of next year's hottest cars: the most hard-core derivative yet of the 997-generation 911, the GT2. Scooped deep in the Californian...

My, this looks a bit of a goer Yes, America’s muscle car is back. Cadillac’s red-hot CTS-V is undergoing final testing before the 500bhp monster is unleashed at the Detroit motor show early next year,...

What's going on here then? New hubcaps for the Focus? How droll. No, what you are looking at is the first spy shot of the new Focus RS. Yes, the car they said they wouldn't do is back on track, so to...

Audi to take on Porsche? Surely not... Yes, Porsche and Audi have struck a deal that will see them join forces to jointly develop the R4 – Audi’s entry-level sports coupe and roadster – and the next...

Am I missing something here? This Gallardo looks pretty stock to me... It may look like a boggo Gallardo being hammered around the Nürburgring, but have a close look at the exhaust layout of the...

Secret new car? Doesn’t look like Alfa’s doing much to cover it up. It may look like the victim of a boy-racer driveby, but beneath this Alfa 159’s butchered bodywork sits the underpinnings of the...

What Kia and Hyundai are doing next The Korean giants are planning a bit of an image change. The world’s fastest growing car producers (in volume) are planning the next phase of their expansion. Both...

Porsche Panamera: the hype continues It certainly does. There's been plenty of speculation about Porsche's forthcoming model, designed to bridge the gap between its top-end sports cars and SUVs.

BMW 1 series Convertible: the lowdown We’ve seen a fair bit of the 1-series coupe of late, but its topless sibling has proved more elusive. Hardly surprising - BMW will unveil the E82 tin-top in July,...

New Nissan 350Z: the lowdown It’s not been long since Nissan facelifted the 350Z endowing it with an extra 13bhp, but now we've scooped what looks likes the next-generation car, tipped to wear the...

Austin-Healey’s coming back? Why? The recent announcement that Nanjing Automobile Corporation (NAC) and Healey Automobile Consultants Limited (HAC) will collaborate on future sports cars has been...

So the V10-powered S6 isn't fast enough? Seemingly not… Audi’s piping hot RS6 – caught here undergoing its final rounds of Nürburgring dynamic tests – takes the 429bhp 5.2-litre V10 from the S6 and...

Mitsubishi i: the electric era looms Mitsubishi’s first fully electric car slated for mid-2010 release in Japan will be the i city car – and UK bosses are secretly preparing to launch it here by early...

Audi RS6: the lowdown Ever happy to play the powerful saloon game, Audi is continuing to shoehorn enormous engines into docile saloons, this time in the form of the forthcoming RS6. CAR Online caught...

The 1-series coupe must be the most scooped model of recent months? It certainly has had its fair share of sightings. The countdown continues, though, and these barely disguised shots taken at the...

Seat 4x4: the lowdown

Lexus LF-A: the lowdown Japanese luxury brand Lexus hopes to shed its reputation for low-character luxury cars when it launches its first supercar later this year. It plans to copy the success the NSX...

Rolls could team up with Italian coachbuilders Rolls-Royce is considering turning to coachbuilders like Bertone and Zagato to build bespoke Phantoms for the customer who wants to stand out from the...

New Ford Fiesta: the lowdown It’s been five years since the current Fiesta went on sale but these exclusive shots reveal that Ford is ready to revamp its best selling supermini. Back in February CAR...

A coupe version of the MG7 – haven't we seen this before? Yes, if you cast your minds back to late 2004, when the MG Rover Group unveiled it wearing Rover badges. However, a lot of water has passed...

Are we in for a new X-type, then? Not quite. The X-type is due a bit of a tidy-up in time for the 2008 model year. CAR Online’s spies snapped the refreshed Jaguar during high-speed testing, and...

Subaru Impreza STi: the lowdown This is how the new Subaru Impreza STi will look when it is unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. CAR Online’s exclusive artist's impression is based on...

The olde-worlde 75 reborn as a hybrid? Whatever next… Amidst the confusion about Chinese MGs and Rovers, would-be partner to the Longbridge company, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC)...

New JaguarDrive Selector - the scoop Jaguar is desperately trying to fast-forward into the future with its new XF, and leave behind the brand's pipe 'n' slippers image that has so damaged sales in...