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As amalgams of a manufacturer's storied histories goes, this is a pretty good effort.
Built to honour the circa-1937 328 Roadster's 75th birthday, it spent its inaugural outing at the highfalutin Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. Which is on Lake Como. Which is very posh.Advertisement - Page continues below
Usual concept guff aside (like the full-length gullwing doors and sat-nav that operates via "intuitive hand gestures"), this hydrogen-powered car's one of few proper luxo efforts with an environmentally conscious powertrain.
Which means it's got a 1000km range, seating for four actual humans and air suspension (the first electric car with air-ride, no less). Now build it, MB. Oh, and a global hydrogen fuel infrastructure while you're at it.
Just in case Merc doesn't build a worldwide hydrogen fuel infrastructure, we can always fall back on this - probably the best EV... in the world.
It's the Rolls-Royce Experimental Electric. It's had it's combustiony V12 ripped out and replaced with a massive battery pack and twin-electric motors power the rears.
It's also got an induction charging kit, which means you park it over a special pad, them some alarmingly clever alchemy happens and it gets charged wirelessly.Advertisement - Page continues below
Inspired by the groovy (literally) Citroen H van - dig that porcine snout, internet - the Tubik is brilliantly mental.
It's a twin-engined nine-seater with a pull-out luggage drawer, doors that open in funny directions and seats that dance.
When it was unveiled at this year's Geneva motorshow, Volkswagen's design chief, Klaus Bischoff, looked at his new Bulli concept, turned to Top Gear's reporter and asked, ‘Well, at the moment is there an MPV that you would actually WANT to buy?'
No. No there isn't. Certainly not a Touran. Please build it. Immediately.The Ciel (that's French for "sky", dropouts) is a four-seat, four-door convertible that occupies the long-vacant niche left by Lincoln's Continental in the sixties. It's powered by a 425bhp, 3.6-litre, twin-turbo V6 backed up by a lithium-battery-powered hybrid system. And good GOD, it's pretty.
If you build it, we'll buy it. Probably.
We like it when electric cars don't just appeal to besandled denim-growing bores. Which is why the EV-Ster's particularly enticing - it goes fast.
Honda reckons it'll build it. We shan't hold our breath. But we will cross our fingers.
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How do you replace a car as familiar and revered as the 63-year-old Land Rover Defender? Like this.
Revealed at this year's Frankfurt motor show, the immense ground clearance, boxy flanks, short overhangs and general awesomeness have earned it a firm thumbs up from us.
It has a 2.5-litre, five-cylinder TFSI engine with 496bhp and 486lb ft of torque. We need this, Audi. We need it NOW.
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It's small, it's gently cubic and it goes quite quickly (it's got a 98bhp version of the 1.0-litre three-cylinder engine found in the standard car). We reckon - should VW build it - it'll fast become the darling of grass-roots racers. Which is a Good Thing.
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