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To compete successfully at the top levels of motorsport, you need more than well-developed machinery. You also need well-developed drivers. When BMW re-entered Formula One in 2000, its need for young talent became acute. Having focused on production-based racing since ending its partnership with...

Bentley Projects showcases the Royal College of Art’s students’ visions towards a more sustainable luxury automotive future Design concepts are centred around three particular areas The ‘made world’, based on materiality and the craft of making The ‘regenerative world’, focussed on sustainable...

BMW 5 Series G60 2023 Renders and other spy shots of the upcoming model year 2023 BMW 5 Series G60

This is a throwback video to 1973, where the presenter discusses about a computer that can predict the end of human civilization. It prints a graph bases on a number of parameters and plots the graph starting from 1900 up to 2060. The most bizarre things start to occur in the year 2020. This I...

Some amazing out of this world 1940'/50's/60's concept cars and hot rods designed and built by Darryl Starbird.

This thread is for news and info about new technology and advancements in the Battery Electric Vehicles. Let me start off with this article I found about new battery charging tech...

Mercedes Benz Chief Design Officer Gorden Wagener teased a new concept to add glory to MB Design - Vision Mercedes Simplex. It’ll be a fusion of Mercedes’s rich heritage with the ambitious modern future.

Future BMW M cars could use tech developed by the firm's i electrification team to boost performance BMW's M division is actively in talks with the firm’s i electrification team about incorporating the technology in performance cars, it has emerged. The German brand is introducing...

Porsche Controls the Future for Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini We look into what that future holds By: Georg Kacher September 7, 2018 It may be that all’s well that ends well, but at this point, it is difficult to predict what shape the end will assume. The “end,” in this case, is the...

German automotive supplier Schaeffler has converted an Audi RS3 TCR into a ridiculously powerful EV capable of accelerating from 0-124 mph in under seven seconds. The creation, called the Schaeffler 4ePerformance, features four 295 hp Formula E motors that make a combined output of 1,182 hp...

The "new species" of automobile - in other words - vapourware on wheels

Cool video from Autogefuhl showing the latest tech from Audi, some great things.

Saw this photo on another forum, and I thought I'd missed some announcement by BMW of their future M virtual cockpits. I think it looks really good, albeit quite different to the new Multi-Function Display on the new G11 7 Series. It turns out this is a design study by a guy called Denys...

I was reading the two press releases that Volvo issued today about their advanced driving systems and I though about creating one thread to post everything that is related to all driverless car research programs here and keep the forum tidy. I'll make the start!

Is this the Futuremark 3D OpenGL-Powered Car Dashboard of the Future? We've seen all-digital concept dashboards before, but none seem as impressive 3D (or close to reality) as Futuremark's. It scraps everything behind and to the right of the wheel in favor of a smooth, uninterrupted display...

Splitting out the off topic posts from the Tesla Model 3 thread about the future of personal transportation. Continue the discussion here. Talking about Uber, my uber take - Uber/Lyft is a bigger existential threat to car companies (including Tesla) than even Tesla. Me and my friend did some...

Every day I read things on the internet that makes me realize we live in the future (yeah, I know, technically we live in the present). I'm curious to know, why do you think we live in the future? I'll start: -The Apple Watch. As seen in the Jetsons. -Full electric cars. -Internet. Need I say...

One day during the early 1920’s Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler sat down in Germany and agreed to merge their two car companies into one and start producing Mercedes-Benz cars. They had each made their own versions of the world’s first petrol-driven cars back in 1886. Within years, Gottlieb...

Alfa compact SUV - compete with X1, Q3 - Giulia platform - on road use only New Giulietta - Only one model: a five door - Crossover coupe instead of sport hatch - might use Fiat 500L/X platform Alfetta - USA market only - A6, 5 series competitor Giulia coupe/Alfa GT -mid segment coupe...