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Jaguar C-XF Concept: Detroit Preview
It’s been a while since Jaguar has taken a fresh design direction. For the past two decades or more, the luxury automaker has produced sedans and coupes that have looked very much like the cars that came before them. In other words, Jaguars have been retro for far too long. Well, that’s about to change.
The C-XF concept sedan, set to take the stage in Detroit next week, is a clean-slate design for Jag. Gone are the four round headlamps that have adorned the nose of every Jaguar sedan since, well, forever. Instead, the sedan has menacing eyes and a big, big grill upfront. Behind that grill is Jag’s familiar, supercharged 4.2-liter V8 tuned to produce 420 hp and paired to a six-speed automatic.
Like the Mercedes-Benz CLS and Lincoln’s MKR concept, the C-XF is a four-door sedan with a coupe’s proportions. And to our eyes, that low roofline and high beltline look just right. Jaguar says the C-XF is just a concept, but we’ll bet a toned-down version of this car will launch within a year or two as the replacement for the current S-Type sedan. We’ve got our fingers crossed—this is one sweet-looking Jag. —Ben Stewart

mazda Nagare

Mazda Motor Corporation announced the global reveal of an all-new concept car, Mazda NagaRE (pronounced na-gah-reh), at the Greater Los Angeles International Auto Show. The press conference is scheduled at 4:05 PM on November 29, 2006. Last year, Mazda had a one-two-three punch with the Sassou, Senku, and Kabura concept cars. The Nagare is the first indication of Mazda's future design direction. Mazda is very tight lipped about this car, but be sure that RotaryNews.com will bring you coverage of this concept, and other items at the LA and Detroit Autoshows.From this little glimpse, it appears to be a continuation of the Senku from the 2005 Tokyo Autoshow. According to Mazda's newly appointed global design director, Laurens van den Acker, Nagare sums up the future of Mazda design in one deceptively simple word -Flow. "Nagare is a celebration of proportions and surface language that will evolve into subsequent designs planned for presentation at future international auto shows. Nagare examines light and shadow, and begins to reveal the global design cues for the next generation of Mazda vehicles."Franz Von Holzhausen, Director of Design for Mazda North American Operations, who headed the Nagare design team in Irvine, Calif., describes Nagare as an evolving expression of Zoom-Zoom: "Inspired by the movement of nature's elements, our designers have captured motion, energy and lightness, translating into a beautiful language of lines and forms that are powerful yet effortless, provocative yet strikingly seductive."And there's much more to come, too, as Mazda continues to evolve flow through future models. For now, Mazda enthusiasts can experience Nagare as an indication of Mazda Design's confident step in a new direction.Other vehicles on display at the Show include the recently launched Mazda CX-7 crossover SUV, the Mazda CX-9 three-row, seven-passenger SUV, which arrives in North American Mazda dealerships in early 2007

Kue the brand new Kia concept

Kia has the whole value thing down pat - now it's going for a little more excitement in its vehicles.
The company unveiled its latest concept vehicle at the 2007 North American International Auto Show, a sporty little thing called the 'Kue'. Kia classifies the Kue as a crossover utility vehicle (CUV) but with an added focus on performance. The company says that though it's 'purely a concept, the Kia Kue does hint at future styling directions for Kia Motors.'
The Kue features a less-is-more look; from the outside, wheels are pushed to the sides under muscular wheel flares with skin tautly stretched over its underpinnings. A single side door opens scissor style for easy ingress and egress.
All four passengers are treated to custom-built bucket seats and everyone will notice a technology-driven interface in front of them while inside the Kue. Touch pad and motion-sensing controls are used to adjust things like audio and climate, and the entire system is programmable so that one surface may activate the stereo for one driver and temperature for another. Rear passengers have their own, separate interface.
The all-wheel drive Kue has the powertrain to justify calling itself a performance vehicle as well, as it's fitted with 400-horsepower, DOHC, supercharged 4.6-liter V8 that produces 400 lb-ft of torque

Zero concept bares a striking resemblence to the Audi TT, Nissan 350Z, and Infiniti G35 coupe. A project that has come out of the International School of Design in France, more specifically transportation designer Franck Levivier and digital designers Remi Marchand and Pierre-Olivier Wagner.Based on exterior design alone, you would expect that such a concept would involve a V6 (or bigger) engine with a huge displacement and outrageous horsepower numbers. Instead, the designers envision the R-Zero being "powered by an electric motor yet offer a supercar level of performance." To be able to generate the 800 volts of output and rocket around the test track, the R-Zero is said to deploy around 1,200 kilos (about 2,645 pounds) of "high-tech lithium-ion batteries" and a quad of engines weighing 85 kilograms (187 pounds) in total. Add in the chassis, the interior, body panelling, and all that and you have yourself a rather porky sportscar, no?

Mercedes-Benz Ocean Drive concept

Mercedes-Benz Ocean

Look past the Mercedes-Benz Ocean Drive concept's LED head and taillamps and fancy flush doorhandles and you're looking at what a likely S-Class production convertible will look like. Names for the famous strip of road on South beach, the Ocean Drive would fit right in with the beautiful people and the high-end cars known to prowl the area. Based on the V12-powered, long-wheelbase S 600 sedan, the Ocean Drive concept gets an oversized grille (we like) and retains its source car's four-door style. the side glass is frameless, and there are no pillars to interrupt the lines when the car is open to the sky. A traditional, large soft-top protects occupants in sub-optimal weather conditions, and the car features Mercedes' neck-warming technology called AIRSCARF. Nifty indeed. Build it.

New Toyota Supra

All I want to say is I'm glad Autoblog is around at this time in automotive history. I can't remember this many exciting new models in the past twenty years. As the world around us is far from perfect, automakers are distracting us with some of the most beautiful and high-powered vehicles of the modern era. Now come spy shots of a new Toyota Supra. I've Photoshopped the image originally shown on AutoSpies to better showoff the car. Obviously these were scanned in from a magazine or brochure. AutoSpies says it looks like an Aston Martin or the new Shelby GR-1. I don't know what it looks like but it sure doesn't look like a Toyota, although neither did the last Supra. Thoughts?

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